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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Topic Author's Original Post - Sep 27, 2015 - 09:51am PT
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So Mari's about to pack the car for a trip to Smith Rocks, when she notices a pull tab on the carpet at the back of the car. Hmmm...
That's where, in most cars, you'd find a well for a spare tire, but since our spare is mounted externally, I wonder...
What was under it was the usual tire well, which we'd never bothered to look into, but check out the underside of the lid...
Are those really fold-out supports?
We've got ourselves a picnic table!!!
Who knew?
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looks easy from here
climber
Ben Lomond, CA
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Sep 27, 2015 - 09:55am PT
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I have one of those! :D
Except it's been on my deck since I bought my CRV in April because I prefer the extra room since I know anytime I'd want the table it would have 4000 pounds of junk between me and it.
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rincon
climber
Coarsegold
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Sep 27, 2015 - 09:55am PT
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Pretty cool!
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Sep 27, 2015 - 10:06am PT
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Where are the chairs?
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Winemaker
Sport climber
Yakima, WA
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Sep 27, 2015 - 11:29am PT
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Here's a cool old one. The way wooden barrels are curved up at the ends means that when they are rolled down a ramp made from two parallel boards they self correct their steering; if one end gets a bit ahead of the other the barrel starts turning, that side of the barrel is then running on a smaller radius than the other, so it steers itself back to straight. This makes it easy to unload barrels by just letting them go down the ramp. Sorry, not a very good description, but visualize it. They were not dumb back in the day.
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johnboy
Trad climber
Can't get here from there
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Sep 27, 2015 - 12:47pm PT
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^^^
Much like wheels on a rairoad car.
The wheels rim is slanted so the one side covers a larger distance and the other a shorter distance on a curve. Makes them self centering on the straight and less binding on a curve.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Sep 27, 2015 - 01:43pm PT
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The top of the rail also is radiused
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couchmaster
climber
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Sep 27, 2015 - 05:18pm PT
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Shock/surprise!!! (NOT!) You'll love reading the user manual ----- if or when you get to it.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sep 27, 2015 - 05:24pm PT
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Didjya know that the 'toothbrush' was invented in Arkansas? I didn't think ya did.
If it had been invented anywhere else they woulda called it the 'teethbrush'.
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perswig
climber
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Not much traction in this thread.
Working on replacing and rewiring septic pump and alarm, and came across this brilliant bit about buried cable/conduit:
... at the 1 ft depth as you are back filling place yellow caution tape the length of the trench. This way if someone digs they will hit the caution tape and know that wiring or piping is below.
Dale
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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phase change material. from thermodynamics: sheetrock that stores heat or cold as if it were a 5 inch brick wall.
gypsum embedded with "micronal" spheres of a modified paraffin coated in acrylic go liquid to solid/solid to liquid
right around room temp to maintain mollycoddled wimps in happy ambience
http://www.homebuilding.co.uk/2012/05/20/phase-change-materials/
PCMs undoubtedly work; all the academic studies done on the material back up that claim.
By way of comparison, concrete has a heat storage capacity of 0.784kWh/m3
while a PCM will hold between 38 to 105kWh/m3.
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apogee
climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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^^^
I've seen ads for that stuff recently...wondered about:
*Durability over longterm?
*Installation: required underlying structure?
*Stain resistance?
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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I wonder about grass/vegetation growing through it.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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According to the US Department of Commerce, half of all fences sold in this country are chain link fences.
The reason for their ubiquity is, first of all, because chain link fencing has been around for a long time, probably longer than you would have guessed.
The first company to manufacture chain link fences in the US is Anchor Fence in 1891. They were called Anchor Post Fence Co. then. They say that the first chain link fence they ever installed is (or was, as of 2005) still standing, somewhere in New Jersey.
Some sources say that chain link fencing was actually first made in Norwich, England, in 1844.
Norwich had for centuries been a weaving town, producing finely woven fabrics. But with the Industrial Revolution, people were making more fabrics for less money. So one company (unnamed) in Norwich altered their machinery to accommodate metal rather than thread. Apparently, they initially wove a lighter gauge metal and thus invented chicken wire. Later they switched to a heavier metal, creating chain link fencing.
Another source agrees that chain link fencing was invented in 1844, but they say it was invented by one guy, Charles Barnard, who based its construction on woven cloth. So maybe Charles Barnard lived in Norwich.
Whether it's Barnard or someone else in Norwich, or Anchor Fence in the US, chain link fencing is at least 120 years old.
In fact, chain link comes in two basic types of security levels. You can choose whether you want the top of your chain link fence to be rounded and climbing-friendly, or barbed and climbing-unfriendly.
http://dailyapple.blogspot.com/2011/06/apple-528-chain-link-fencing.html
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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That old fence is in Camden Nj
Another antique stretch of fence is in Patterson.Nj
I wish I did not know this. . .
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 3, 2015 - 09:01pm PT
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So here's another clever idea. And one I'd never have known about if it weren't for SuperToprope.
I have no idea why he posted it, but a few years ago, Khanom decided to tell us all that if you looked closely at a plastic wrap or aluminum foil box you'd see little cut lines at each end. Press on them, and a little piece of the box folds inward and acts as an anchor for the roll inside.
No more pulling on the end of the foil or plastic and having the whole roll jump out of the box and onto the floor with yards and yards of...
Well, you'll understand if you just go to the drawer where you keep you Glad Plastic Wrap and look at the ends of the box.
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