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HolHorsejob posted:The outlet box sitting on the paper they were too lazy to throw away is just Those are manuals and you might need them one day! You can't just throw them away. Especially the ones in languages you don't read or speak.
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MarxCarl posted:AirBnB One of the Airbnbs I stayed at in NYC had walls made from single layer plywood and bunks constructed from scrap 2x4s. It looked like a squat. Supremely cursed place.
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gently caress air bnbs, skirting hotel taxes and they try to make you clean up at the end of your trip and still charge insane fees
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One of the other Airbnb’s I stayed at was a commune in the West Virginia highlands. When the host was showing us around, I noticed her stepping very intentionally around one area of the footpath. The next day it was raining, and I noticed that spot was where someone had run electrical lines to several outbuildings. The line was not buried, it was just laying on the ground, and was spliced with wire nuts and nothing else. At least someone put some big rocks there so you could hop over it easily. It was a very special place and I think they just used Airbnb as a no fuss way to rent out their spare buildings to generate funds. I wish I had the money to donate to them to fix their electrical.
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wesleywillis posted:Print out pictures of the goatman and leave them in various places where you find subpar workmanship. I should do this when I do work around my place so whoever lives there next can be extra mad at me.
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Uthor posted:I should do this when I do work around my place so whoever lives there next can be extra mad at me. Crappy Construction: My PO Goatsed Me
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Goated with the GFCIs
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Platystemon posted:Goated with the GFCIs 2/10 no ring mains
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kreeningsons posted:
As opposed to all other bootleg landlords who do it for fun and not profit
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Platystemon posted:Goated with the GFCIs Goatse Fisting Cock Insanity
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Stayed at a place that my brother in laws friend owns for a few days and found a couple things like this big wooden box in the living room. It's how you block off a staircase apparently. There is also this nice balcony  The railings were only 70cm tall. I don't know about the average goon but for me it was just above knee height and perfect for tripping over, the wet slippery tiles don't help much either. :edit forgot to add there are no returns for the central air in any of the bedrooms so you have to sleep with your door open. coldpudding fucked around with this message at 11:17 on Dec 27, 2023 |
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Hoping that someone in here has some random knowledge about this. Cement trucks rotate their poo poo one direction to keep it from setting, and the other direction to offload cement. This means that when they're not empty there is considerably more weight on one side of the vehicle due to the cement riding up the wall of the container. Do they run higher springrates on that one side?
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I've always assumed it's like an Archimedes screw inside. To unload it rotates in a way that pulls the cement out, and the other way just sort of keeps pushing the cement down, but it's still basically evenly distributed from side to side.
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They spin anticlockwise in countries where they drive on the left, so that on roads sloped away from their centerlines to shed water, the heavier side is uphill.
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Platystemon posted:They spin anticlockwise in countries where they drive on the left, so that on roads sloped away from their centerlines to shed water, the heavier side is uphill. On the one hand that sounds perfectly reasonable, and on the other hand it sounds like a joke - and I genuinely can't decide.
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Computer viking posted:On the one hand that sounds perfectly reasonable, and on the other hand it sounds like a joke - and I genuinely can't decide. Mnemonic for drivers: Keeping the drum turning towards the stars keeps the concrete off the cars. (When viewed in the driver’s side mirror.)
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Computer viking posted:On the one hand that sounds perfectly reasonable, and on the other hand it sounds like a joke - and I genuinely can't decide. This was exactly my reaction. Still unsure.
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In Australia, cement mixers are used for demolition, to un-pour and recycle concrete.
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Platystemon posted:They spin anticlockwise in countries where they drive on the left, so that on roads sloped away from their centerlines to shed water, the heavier side is uphill.
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Platystemon posted:Keeping the drum
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If you're looking for an amusing yet mildly expensive party trick Amazon sells a water tight RC cement mixer that holds about 1 liter of
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VelociBacon posted:Hoping that someone in here has some random knowledge about this. Cement trucks rotate their poo poo one direction to keep it from setting, and the other direction to offload cement. This means that when they're not empty there is considerably more weight on one side of the vehicle due to the cement riding up the wall of the container. Do they run higher springrates on that one side? I don't think the spin is to prevent settings, but for mixing. As far as I understand it, the formula is set based partially on the drive time, tossed in and mixed under way. I can't imaging in spins fast enough to actually run concrete up one side. I'd bet that sort of imbalance is more of a problem with something more viscous like plane old water. Concrete in liquid form is gonna stay at the bottom, where as a slight turn or incline is gonna have water really out of balance.
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There's a kind of archimedes screw inside the drum walls so the concrete is evenly distributed on the truck/road and during mixing/pouring. The slow spin on the road is to keep it from setting, then when they get to the site they'll crank up the speed and mix for a minute before changing the spin direction to place it (or after they add water to the mix to make it e: ^^^ It's mixed at the plant, not along the way. The mixer works way harder/faster than the truck could, and it's elevated so the truck just drives under and gets loaded. Dance McPants fucked around with this message at 22:28 on Dec 28, 2023 |
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Tunnel lady finally got tracked down and the zoning department issued an immediate stop work order upon doing an inspection for un-permitted construction: https://www.tiktok.com/@engineer.everything/video/7317787448350706987 She had no permits and was doing it in a residential suburb in VA (rumor is in the DC metro region somewhere). "Finding out" has begun.
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I'm sure it will be easy and no big deal like she suggests, she's an engineer* after all. *software engineer
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R.I.P. tunnel dream, felled by shoddy opsec.
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"Shouldn't be too hard to get the permits" well then why didn't you get them ahead of time eh? Also lol at the staged "first call" she got. Complete with exterior footage of her pulling off the road.
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She should have put huge, red, flashing *DRAMATIC REENACTMENT* text on the screen. It would have added to the ambiance anyway.
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Filing permits for construction of the CNN tunnel fortress graphic, under DC.
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Shifty Pony posted:Tunnel lady finally got tracked down and the zoning department issued an immediate stop work order upon doing an inspection for un-permitted construction:
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I live in Lincolnshire, and I can't imagine the councils around here being too bothered by furze's underground garage. He seems to be within the UK building regs and his build isn't going to alter the appearance of his house. Also, he's famous around here: there's no way he'd be dumb enough to try flying under the radar when every one of his mad projects makes the local news. I'm willing to bet that furze has done this by the book, despite his rebel aesthetic.
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Azza Bamboo posted:[…] every one of his mad projects makes the local news. Now there's something to aspire to.
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If she actually is in the DC metro area she's going to be extra hosed because the region recently had an amateur-tunneling related disaster which keeps getting brought back into people's consciousness due to the house owner's continued legal fight against jail time for a manslaughter conviction. The circumstances are different but the various code enforcement agencies are not going to be inclined to go lightly on her hijinks.
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bobua posted:I don't think the spin is to prevent settings, but for mixing. As far as I understand it, the formula is set based partially on the drive time, tossed in and mixed under way. This post is so confusing. Water is more viscous than concrete?
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No, no - not just water, plane old water! That plane in there might make all the difference.
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KoRMaK posted:their accent is baffling Seriously, someone explain that part. It totally ruins my immersion.
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Azza Bamboo posted:I live in Lincolnshire, and I can't imagine the councils around here being too bothered by furze's underground garage. He seems to be within the UK building regs and his build isn't going to alter the appearance of his house. Also, he's famous around here: there's no way he'd be dumb enough to try flying under the radar when every one of his mad projects makes the local news. I'm willing to bet that furze has done this by the book, despite his rebel aesthetic. He addressed this in a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_ESR5zoGYQ&t=1103s Short version is that he didn't have permission when he started but someone finally got wise to it around 5 videos into the project and sent an inspector out and made him get real plans to submit, which worked out because they're more accurate now that he's seen how things are under the house. If anyone is wondering what his neighbors think of all this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNSHNXCeir8
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If left-right imbalance in concrete mixers was a big deal, I’d expect manufacturers to have a lot of stuff in their marketing about how the 1240 models come a unique ActiveBalance technology that reduces rotary imbalances by 23%, and I don’t really see that. I think they just expect the suspension on a medium/heavy truck to be able to take care of it. Concrete trucks are unsteady, but that’s mostly because the weight is constantly moving around, not because it rides up in the drum a bit.
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