DIY Thread - Let's see your "Inventions".

[vehve]

The rails do hold a lot of weight, but they prefer to say no since you could damage something. If you get two screws in per clamp with the pipe in, that would already be half a victory.

Those temps are pretty similar to ours, maybe slightly colder. We have some variance, last winter was warm. Almost no snow, and just about. Two or three weeks of below -20.

I do distances conversions in my head, but temps are a bit arbitrary to grasp. The F scale is just too weird.

 

[bruceha2000]

The rails do hold a lot of weight, but they prefer to say no since you could damage something. If you get two screws in per clamp with the pipe in, that would already be half a victory.

Those temps are pretty similar to ours, maybe slightly colder. We have some variance, last winter was warm. Almost no snow, and just about. Two or three weeks of below -20.

I do distances conversions in my head, but temps are a bit arbitrary to grasp. The F scale is just too weird.

And 12 inches = 1 foot, 5,280 feet in a mile ISN'T weird?? I guess the kilometer to mile conversion isn't so bad, 6/10th. 60 MPH = 100 KPH. No "add or subtract 32" like with temperatures. And is it subtract the 32 before the multiplication then division or after? Do you multiply by 5 then divide by 9 or the other way around? Yeah, not so easy. -40 is easy since it is the same in both systems - TOO FREAKING COLD!

 

[vehve]

Pounds and ounces and gallons are a bit difficult too... For instance, say you have one basic volume unit of water. How much does it weigh? What are the measurements of a cube that holds that amount? Simple in metric, 1 liter of water weighs one kilogram, and the measurements would be 10cm*10cm*10cm.

 

[perchie.girl]

@vehve and
@bruceha2000

Ok.... What in the heck are snow rails?

Only probs I have with metric and english is getting the screws mixed in the same bucket.....

quarter twenty VS M6-1

quarter twenty is .25 diameter and 20 threads per inch
M6-1 Is.... an equivalent so is that six millimeters in diameter so How many threads are there? I know its not 1

I know the decimal equivalent of just about all the fractions almost down to the 32nd and some 64th.... From all the measuring i have done over the years.

As long as I dont have to mix the two like in dual dimensioning I am fine. By the time I got into doing drawings that required it I was on CAD... Whew. There is a tool for that.

 

[vehve]

Deb, they keep the snow from falling off the roof, usually installed above doors. If you've got 2 feet of snow on the rood, and the roof is 20 feet tall, and it's starts melting and becomes wet, that's quite a mass dropped down on you from the vibration of slamming the door behind you. Here, a man was killed a few winters ago, although then it fell from a six story house.

 

[Minflick]

Vehve,

Could you not open the door, slam it hard, and dodge back indoors for a few minutes? Would that not work to dislodge any loose-enough snow to fall down while you wait it out inside the door. Akin to setting off cannons in ski resorts, etc. to provoke the avalanche when you want it, not when somebody goes across the mountain at the wrong moment...?

 

[perchie.girl]

Deb, they keep the snow from falling off the roof, usually installed above doors. If you've got 2 feet of snow on the rood, and the roof is 20 feet tall, and it's starts melting and becomes wet, that's quite a mass dropped down on you from the vibration of slamming the door behind you. Here, a man was killed a few winters ago, although then it fell from a six story house.

VERY interesting.... Good reason to have a porch.... But I suspect the Rails are cheaper. Wow Two feet has got to be heavy....

Most snow I ever experienced was in Roswell NM... Back in the late 50s.

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

Vehve,

Could you not open the door, slam it hard, and dodge back indoors for a few minutes? Would that not work to dislodge any loose-enough snow to fall down while you wait it out inside the door. Akin to setting off cannons in ski resorts, etc. to provoke the avalanche when you want it, not when somebody goes across the mountain at the wrong moment...?

Hmmm.... If there were enough snow. it might block the door.... Just thinking here.....

 

[hennible]

Crazy the pitch of the roof should just not dump snow where you have a door....

 

[perchie.girl]

Crazy the pitch of the roof should just not dump snow where you have a door....

you just gave me an AHA moment.... I have spent a lot of time looking at architecture and seen little dormers over a front door.... wondering .... Why?

deb