Why is every pair of men’s swim trunks sold with that fucking netting that chaffs your thighs when you go to the beach? What is the purpose? To catch turds? I don’t understand.
Even in the face of Israel queering the deal of our God-Emperor Trump, boomers will defend our “greatest ally” until their dying breath.
We can either take away their ability to vote along with their driver’s licenses, or we can wait for them to die and kill a mini-van with a woman and three kids.
Boomers are too brainwashed; they’re fucking cattle.
@PNS that's not the issue, it's that they can come out of square in the Z axis and warp (which would happen even with diagonal bracing) which probably creates micro-fractures in the glass that can't be seen by the eye.
The much sturdier and flat surface offered by the unistrut (with a lot less play than the EMT clips I'm currently using) should prevent Z axis warping.
EMT rails attached and bent. Roof is mostly finished. Will caulk between the panels at the end.
I’ll bend identical conduits for the “sleds” so there are no fittings on the ground inhibiting dragging it.
The (small) vertical struts will vary in length to give me the appropriate winter angle.
I will use T fittings to add horizontal members to create a box. Once they’re on I’ll use steel cable and turnbuckles to make it rigid, followed by welded wire screen attached using steel cable ties.
EMT, one-hole straps, and cage wire (all to be etched and painted black) for the structure. I’ll inset a 8” wire/slat lip on the inside to discourage digging out, but we’ll be moving these at least once a day.
Solar panels will run fans to keep the buns cool (since I’m not letting them dig to retreat from the heat), and in the colder months will run heat strips to keep the water tank/nipples from freezing.
As I suspected, the extra fittings on the sled make it much more difficult to move. For the first “production” unit (which will get paint and I’ll actually measure stuff instead of eyeballing it), I may weld the bottom six joints to the sled. That, or be lazy and use two EMT runs at the bottom and bolt the top one to the bottom using bolts inside the tube.
Given it a bit more thought, and the other problem with the bends vs 90 deg. fittings is breaking strength under load.
The back (the part not pictured) will have one, maybe two vertical supports which should help, but having those bends means it would take a lot less load (snow) to push them to the critical point where the metal creases and then snaps.
If I lived somewhere down South, using bends like this would probably be fine.
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