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Well, at least his videos show he's filmed a 1 year update on the tank and it looks fine... oh. and a bunch of videos about guns and 'those SJWs' welp.
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Poisonlizard posted:Structural (All Purpose) Silicone: Here's his six month followup. [video type="youtube"]/watch?annotation_id=annotation_1728382965&feature=iv&src_vid=ZkLzqZzjJ8U&v=IM6VAYV-VJM[/video]
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Collateral Damage posted:Is it called a Hope Shelf because that's what's holding it together? That's what the shelves attempt to spell out, but there's some question about the fusion of 'P' and 'E' in my mind.
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# ? Mar 7, 2017 13:45 |
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Hop Shelf. For your collection of IPAs.
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# ? Mar 7, 2017 13:50 |
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actually plywood tanks are a thing. its usually done when you cant afford proper glass for a legit huge tank. Most legit massive glass or acrylic tanks are also held together primarily with structural bracing and silicone https://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/threads/building-a-1700-gallon-shark-tank-by-black-tip.45035/
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# ? Mar 7, 2017 13:53 |
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30 Goddamned Dicks posted:In the suburbs of D.C., yeah. There's a ton of planned communities in the western D.C. Suburbs that sprung up in the 50s/60s/70s with cookie cutter single family homes (around 1200-1600sft) on .25 acre lots. Flash forward to today, rich people buy up grandmas house (or better yet, grandmas house and the lot next door) when she kicks the bucket, bulldoze the house, and build a 2 or 3 story monstrosity that sticks out like a sore thumb and has 4' of clearance on three sides between the outside walls and the property line. Or grandma was lucky enough to have a house on a 1 acre lot, in which case a developer buys it and builds 4 mini McMansions on .25 acre lots after mowing all the trees down. Or grandma had a farm which is now being turned into "Beechwood Hills: New Single Family Homes Starting From $1.2 Million!" This poo poo's happening everywhere. In Des Moines, the middle of loving flyover country, developers are buying up all the farmland close to town to do this with while the east and south sides of the city proper are full of 1910's-1920's houses that are falling apart because people will spend 225k on a lowest-bidder McMansion rather than 175k a nice house in a developed neighborhood that might need a couple grand in updates.
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Bud K ninja sword posted:actually plywood tanks are a thing. its usually done when you cant afford proper glass for a legit huge tank. Most legit massive glass or acrylic tanks are also held together primarily with structural bracing and silicone This is terrifying and a horrible use of square footage and probably added negative value to the home overall, but that is so loving cool
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couldcareless posted:This is terrifying and a horrible use of square footage and probably added negative value to the home overall, but that is so loving cool in addition most people dont really plan for hey how do i mitigate the humidity of having several tons of circulating water in my house?
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Bud K ninja sword posted:in addition most people dont really plan for hey how do i mitigate the humidity of having several tons of circulating water in my house? He does actually address that towards the end. He finished his basement with greenboard and installed oversized air exchangers and fans.
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Suspect Bucket posted:He does actually address that towards the end. He finished his basement with greenboard and installed oversized air exchangers and fans. I put that guy as a positive example...that dude spent some time, thought and money. most plywood tank builders go for big without understanding basic poo poo like water moves, its heavy and changes state based on the weather.
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them's some weird grounding issues
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# ? Mar 7, 2017 15:14 |
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Synthbuttrange posted:https://betterdwelling.com/vacant-homes-global-epidemic-paris-fighting-60-tax/#_ That's clever and I will be interested to see the long term effects, if the tax lasts that long.
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Qwijib0 posted:them's some weird grounding issues I realize that kid caused a bunch of damage, but it seems kind of crazy that he's being charged with arson? Surely there is a matter of intent involved, it doesn't sound like he really had any idea what he was doing could create fires in nearby buildings. Also, he's 10.
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# ? Mar 7, 2017 15:32 |
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Gotta start building that criminal record so they can justify gunning him down before he turns 18.
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Ashcans posted:I realize that kid caused a bunch of damage, but it seems kind of crazy that he's being charged with arson? Surely there is a matter of intent involved, it doesn't sound like he really had any idea what he was doing could create fires in nearby buildings. Also, he's 10. Maybe they just misspelled it and left off the second word: "arsin' around"
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# ? Mar 7, 2017 16:11 |
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Why is that apartment building only protected by a 12 gauge ground that runs open outside?
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# ? Mar 7, 2017 16:19 |
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Liquid Communism posted:This poo poo's happening everywhere. In Des Moines, the middle of loving flyover country, developers are buying up all the farmland close to town to do this with while the east and south sides of the city proper are full of 1910's-1920's houses that are falling apart because people will spend 225k on a lowest-bidder McMansion rather than 175k a nice house in a developed neighborhood that might need a couple grand in updates. Thankfully, the thing to do here is buy all the old victorians, craftsman, spanish, and mid-century modern houses here, often in kind of disrepair and restore them to their former glory. Or at least attempt to, they seem to get rebuilt so fast there has to be some terrible stuff going on. Speaking of what I think is crappy, my uncle is rebuilding his 20s duplex (he lives in the top), which is a pretty cool spanish style structure. He's doing a lot of good things, replacing all the knob and tube stuff, redoing the plumbing and wood work (he is one of the best wood turners in the country and did the turnings for the state capitol when they restored it), but he is replacing all the lathe and plaster walls with drywall. I know that makes all the rewiring easier, but drat do I hate drywall in an older house.
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Qwijib0 posted:them's some weird grounding issues That's what I was thinking. Shouldn't a lack of a mains ground cause no damage in otherwise to-code wiring?
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As promised, here is the absolute dog-poo poo remodel job the previous owner did in my bathroom. When we were negotiating price, he actually tried to use the remodeled bathroom as a positive and as a reason for his higher-than-average asking price. We were able to knock the price down after we pointed out he did a terrible job and we'd basically have to spend a bunch of money to redo it ourselves. We probably would have remodeled it last summer, but massive winds completely destroyed our fence, which we knew was failing, but the home inspector and us thought we could get a couple more years out of. Guess we were wrong. Sorry in advance that my bathroom is dirty, after I looked at the photos I went and cleaned it. Imgur album: http://imgur.com/a/AguyZ
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DrBouvenstein posted:As promised, here is the absolute dog-poo poo remodel job the previous owner did in my bathroom. Dear god, that looks like I'd done it.
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DrBouvenstein posted:As promised, here is the absolute dog-poo poo remodel job the previous owner did in my bathroom. I love learning from other people's mistakes
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Bud K ninja sword posted:actually plywood tanks are a thing. its usually done when you cant afford proper glass for a legit huge tank. Most legit massive glass or acrylic tanks are also held together primarily with structural bracing and silicone That's pretty cool. Gonna be pretty messy in five or ten years when those boys and their friends put a football through the glass.
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deoju posted:That's pretty cool. Don't aquariums usually use something stronger than actual glass specifically for that kind of reason? Thick acrylic sheet or something?
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Oh, yeah I'd bet it does. I'm just saying teenage boys are loving dangerous. They'd better cover the front with 2 inch thick steel plate until the youngest one is a sophomore at least.
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Brute Squad posted:That's what I was thinking. Shouldn't a lack of a mains ground cause no damage in otherwise to-code wiring? Mains ground and neutral are connected together. It would take a very specific set of loose connections for all the power to travel not back to the power company and down that wire instead, but it could happen.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Don't aquariums usually use something stronger than actual glass specifically for that kind of reason? Thick acrylic sheet or something? Acrylic is a cheaper stronger option but it doesnt look as good it scratches easily and kind of sucks. The best poo poo is whats called Starphire glass, but it aint cheap. the bigger your tank the thicker the walls have to be and with thousands of gallons glass starts at around 1/2" thick for over 700 gallons
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# ? Mar 7, 2017 20:40 |
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You can generally slam your open hand against a sheet of glass like that and be OK. It's a sharp point impact that shatters it.
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# ? Mar 7, 2017 20:45 |
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Dude in there said he used a thickass piece of acrylic.
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GenericOverusedName posted:Dude in there said he used a thickass piece of acrylic. hope he likes scuba diving trying to buff scratches out
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# ? Mar 7, 2017 20:58 |
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There is literally a picture of him diving in the tank so I am going to guess he is ok.
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I like glass, but I’m going to guess that acrylic is cheaper on something that size. When you get to the size of aquarium people pay admission to, it’s back to glass.
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Platystemon posted:I like glass, but I’m going to guess that acrylic is cheaper on something that size. No it isn't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poly(methyl_methacrylate)#Uses posted:PMMA acrylic glass is commonly used for constructing residential and commercial aquariums. Designers started building big aquariums when poly(methyl methacrylate) could be used. It is less-used in other building types due to incidents such as the Summerland disaster. See also: Sea World, Monterey Bay, and more.
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toplitzin posted:summerland disaster Wikipedia posted:Summerland [Leisure Center] was opened on 25 May 1971. It was a climate-controlled building covering 3.5 acres on Douglas's [Isle of Man] waterfront, consisting of 50,000 sq ft of floor area at a cost of £2 million. The building's hull and the interior were designed by two different architects—they did not match their planning to each other and thereby created a venue with significant fire risks that were only to become apparent later.
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quote:locked fire doors How do you let a fire get so bad, you can see it from 2 miles away?
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kid sinister posted:Mains ground and neutral are connected together. It would take a very specific set of loose connections for all the power to travel not back to the power company and down that wire instead, but it could happen. In which case the boy would have completed the circuit when he ripped out the ground. The only way this could have started is by power jumping the gap to something that's not supposed to take current, while the neutral was poorly/un-connected, and the ground was only conducting enough to spark, but not to shock someone. In which case the fault should lie on whichever meathead was working on the wiring last. Unless they can prove the kid knew that what he was doing would cause something inside to start a fire, how is this arson, instead of just a kid being ignorant of the construction trade?
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One Legged Ninja posted:In which case the boy would have completed the circuit when he ripped out the ground. The only way this could have started is by power jumping the gap to something that's not supposed to take current, while the neutral was poorly/un-connected, and the ground was only conducting enough to spark, but not to shock someone. In which case the fault should lie on whichever meathead was working on the wiring last. Unless they can prove the kid knew that what he was doing would cause something inside to start a fire, how is this arson, instead of just a kid being ignorant of the construction trade? Yeah there's definitely some bad wiring here. That kid must have a guardian angel working overtime, because he could have very easily died. I'd love to see how to DA argues that a kid playing jump rope equals arson.
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kid sinister posted:How do you let a fire get so bad, you can see it from 2 miles away? You can see a lit candle from 2 miles away, dude
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kid sinister posted:How do you let a fire get so bad, you can see it from 2 miles away? the ocean is really, really empty and really, really dark. Also lol "This part of the building was clad in a material called Galbestos—profiled steel sheeting with asbestos felt on both sides coated with bitumen". Who comes UP with this poo poo. Let's take a material that has literally one redeeming quality, its resistance to flame, and COAT IT IN OIL.
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kid sinister posted:locked fire doors
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Collateral Damage posted:I feel that intentionally blocking fire exits should be treated as first degree murder. If people responsible for setting policies that result in deaths were held responsible for their actions this would be an attack on are economy.
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