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SubponticatePoster posted:It's so weird to see a fired bullet with no deformation. I guess some jackhole fired a gun into the air, bullet hit its apex and then just terminal velocity and weight sent it through your roof like a hot knife through butter and it didn't hit anything but shingle and plywood or whatever the ceiling is made from. Pretty close! From what I've read and half-remembered from an old Mythbusters episode, if they go up and down then it starts tumbling and hits pretty weakly, but if it is fired at an angle, it can keep spinning and keep the force. Judging by the round shape of the hole and oblong shape of my bruise, that's what happened and it smacked me sideways. If there had been attic, it probably would've stopped there. Billion to one shot! Edit: what a 
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Is there a bullet resistant roofing material? I feel like those scalloped clay tiles would do well.
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Not to distract from the bullet chat, but any idea what this is in the below pictures? I found it in a laundry room with a lot of white wire racking. 
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For your hang dry/lay flat to dry stuff, assuming it all assembles into something.
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Eason the Fifth posted:Not to distract from the bullet chat, but any idea what this is in the below pictures? I found it in a laundry room with a lot of white wire racking. I think it goes inside your dryer. Might be this: https://www.maytag.com/accessories/laundry-accessories/dryer/p.dryer-drying-rack,-white.8577312a.html
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It looks like it goes inside the dryer. Look at the lower part of the dryer where the door seals to it, I bet you find 2 little divots it sits in.
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Friend posted:Pretty close! From what I've read and half-remembered from an old Mythbusters episode, if they go up and down then it starts tumbling and hits pretty weakly, but if it is fired at an angle, it can keep spinning and keep the force. Judging by the round shape of the hole and oblong shape of my bruise, that's what happened and it smacked me sideways. If there had been attic, it probably would've stopped there. Billion to one shot! Pic got cross posted to TFR and we're curious if you could measure it and tell us the caliber. But yeah I'd guess it got fired at a high angle and lost a lot of energy from going a long distance but retained stability before piercing your roof and starting to tumble just before hitting you. I once got into an argument on twitter about the danger of a bullet going terminal velocity and we did the math on a .30 cal bullet (2-3x the weight of that if it's a .223/5.56mm) and I came to the conclusion that falling straight down at terminal velocity it'd probably hurt like hell but not kill you. So a lighter projectile almost certainly wouldn't pierce a roof at terminal velocity even if it happened to land pointing straight into the surface. my kinda ape fucked around with this message at 02:00 on Jan 3, 2023 |
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Great, thanks all.
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It goes inside to dryer to dry stuff that you don’t want to tumble.
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BaseballPCHiker posted:Is the water coming from the walls around the edge of your house or straight up out of the floor? It's seeping out where the wall meets the floor. I've lived next to a creek that floods up to the foundation regularly for ten years, this is the first time I've had unexplained seepage. We just had a record freeze so maybe a seam opened in the concrete or something, I dunno. Houses suck.
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Home Zone: Bullet Holes and Painted Moulds
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Do they make kevlar shingles?
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His Divine Shadow posted:Do they make kevlar shingles? Not quite the same but I found a company that makes ballistic panels for homes https://fortifiedestate.com/ E: I ordered their 1 sqft sample SpartanIvy fucked around with this message at 14:35 on Jan 3, 2023 |
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SpartanIvy posted:Not quite the same but I found a company that makes ballistic panels for homes Fortified Estate dot com Weird way to spell "compound"
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Hmm my sump pit inlet drains are full of orange stuff, is that supposed to happen?
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PerniciousKnid posted:Hmm my sump pit inlet drains are full of orange stuff, is that supposed to happen? Have a picture?
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Qwijib0 posted:Fortified Estate dot com These types of fortified compounds are common among moneyed families outside the western world from what I understand.
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SourKraut posted:Have a picture? I tried to attach it and gave up, but I guess it's silt. Apparently you're supposed to clear drain tile periodically, nobody ever told me!
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PerniciousKnid posted:I tried to attach it and gave up, but I guess it's silt. Apparently you're supposed to clear drain tile periodically, nobody ever told me! Double check and make sure that it is in fact silt and not iron ochre, which is slimier and stains any clothing it comes into contact with. Iron ochre can clog sump pumps and drainage lines.
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I'm currently in a rental house with an older kitchen, and having an issue. The top cabinets here are pulling away from the wall and I'm not sure how to fix it.  There are six square head screws that seem to be what is holding it to the wall on the right. I tried taking an impact wrench to them and it didn't seem to do much. Any other ideas for securing this before I try and yell at my landlord?
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Network42 posted:I'm currently in a rental Network42 posted:I'm not sure how to fix it. You don’t. Network42 posted:yell at my landlord? There you go.
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Seconding the advice to yell at your landlord. Your only responsibility is to the stuff that you bring into the apartment. Everything else is their business, up until they hear that you messed with it, at which point they'll try to pin all the blame (and expense of fixing it) on you.
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Yes I would 1000% never mention that you touched it to the landlord. And get everything that you reasonably can in writing.
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Inner Light posted:Yes I would 1000% never mention that you touched it to the landlord. And get everything that you reasonably can in writing. And don't store anything you care about in/around it. You do have renters insurance right?
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Hard to tell from the pic but is the drywall missing behind the cabinet?
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NomNomNom posted:Hard to tell from the pic but is the drywall missing behind the cabinet? I thought so too but I think it's there: 
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NomNomNom posted:Hard to tell from the pic but is the drywall missing behind the cabinet? Might've been a different color that didn't get repainted with the rest of the room.
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So bets on if those screws missed the studs?
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NomNomNom posted:So bets on if those screws missed the studs? I'm guessing there's one single screw that's been doing a fuckton of work
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NomNomNom posted:So bets on if those screws missed the studs? Plastic anchors say they're rated for 50lbs each, it'll hold!
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NomNomNom posted:So bets on if those screws missed the studs? That appears to be a spiral plastic anchor that pulled out. So.....100%.
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ssb posted:Speaking of fireplaces, how hard is it to replace the front of a wood burning fireplace? The one we have is from the 80's and ugly as sin. We had that exact same fireplace when I was a kid.
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Friend posted:Pretty close! From what I've read and half-remembered from an old Mythbusters episode, if they go up and down then it starts tumbling and hits pretty weakly, but if it is fired at an angle, it can keep spinning and keep the force. Judging by the round shape of the hole and oblong shape of my bruise, that's what happened and it smacked me sideways. If there had been attic, it probably would've stopped there. Billion to one shot! Is your roof made out of cotton candy?
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You get a little gap between your range and the counter on both sides that you will invariably drip pasta sauce or drop some toothpicks down. I'm in the design phase of my kitchen remodel and would love to do a drop in induction cooktop with in-cabinet oven under it but that combo over a slide-in is 2-3x the price. I haven't really found any other negatives for the slide-in style, generally they are more affordable, easier to service, and there is more variety to choose from.
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Nicer slide ins have top surfaces that extend over the gaps to the left and right
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Infinotize posted:Nicer slide ins have top surfaces that extend over the gaps to the left and right Do you know a specific model that does this? I'm just trying to figure out what this would be called, when I search for anything with "gap" or "covers" it just gives me the aftermarket filler strip type.
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