Duck Pond Redneckery

[Duck]

Peace pipe?

Gravity fed automatic fire sprinkler.

When the wax in the end of the copper tube melts, it'll dump 5 gallons of water onto the dome shaped thing, which oughta spread it out to douse the fire.

The fire chief doesn't think just a steel trash can with an airtight lid is enough to contain a spontaneous oily rag fire.

So I'm making a whole damn fire suppression system just for this trash can. Kind of as a joke..

 

[389 Hood]

If the lid fits too tightly, it may help to increase the combustion of the oily rags, intensifying the internal fire. Then the lid blowing off may cause the product inside to scatter in the room, further intensifying the fire.

Just something to think about.

 

[Electric Chicken]

If the lid fits too tightly, it may help to increase the combustion of the oily rags, intensifying the internal fire. Then the lid blowing off may cause the product inside to scatter in the room, further intensifying the fire.

Just something to think about.

He just needs to build a vacuum system to remove the oxygen. I'm sure he can do that with the spare stuff he has laying around.

 

[Duck]

If the lid fits too tightly, it may help to increase the combustion of the oily rags, intensifying the internal fire. Then the lid blowing off may cause the product inside to scatter in the room, further intensifying the fire.

Just something to think about.

OK it's like this:

When the can only has a little bit of light stuff in it, if I grab the lid and lift, the can comes up with it. But if I shake the lid a little, it comes off.

It's not gonna contain any pressure.

However, you got me thinking about vapors now.

 

[389 Hood]

I was only trying to create a thought option.

 

[Duck]

Foot operated shop sink.

 

[Duck]

Purty polished brass, coated in polyurethane to keep oxygen from un-purty-izing it.

Because sink fixtures are supposed to be shiny.

 

[Duck]

Thrust bearings. The only way that spring would be strong enough to close the valve. Eliminate all mechanical friction.



The foot thingy (post 7206, second pic) is lubricated with candle wax, rubbed into all the micro-fine pits in the steel while it was molten and the parts were hot.

That's the best I could come up with. Grease or oil will attract dust, and dust attracts water, and water causes rust.

 

[389 Hood]

I don't know where you get it, but what you have is better than any weed I ever had.

 

[Duck]

I don't know where you get it, but what you have is better than any weed I ever had.

Michigan, via a "courier"

 

[389 Hood]

No straight person could dream up something like that.

 

[Duck]

No straight person could dream up something like that.

You don't remember foot operated sinks?

I don't get why they're all gone. Seriously. Especially after the covid hysteria. No germ infested sink knobs to touch. No retarded motion sensor things that give you three drops of water.

I wanted a foot operated sink in the shop because the water comes from a 105 gallon bag, and I gotta carry the gray water outside to dump it.

Foot operated saves water because I don't have to leave it running when I'm scrubbing my hands. Just one quick squirt to wet my hands and thin the soap, then no water usage until it's rinsing time.

The people who are afraid we're gonna run out of something that literally falls from the sky and covers 70% of the planet several miles deep, were the idiots responsible for the motion-sensing public sinks that have been around over 20 years and STILL don't work properly.

 

[389 Hood]

I remember the sinks, but not a contraption like you built out of spare parts like you did.
And yes, I hate those motion sensor valves. The pressure was so weak you had to stand there for 10 minutes to get the soap off of your hands.
Like the 1.28 GPF toilets. You have to flush twice because it's a long way to the White House.

 

[Duck]

I remember the sinks, but not a contraption like you built out of spare parts like you did.

It's a pretty simple mechanism really.

I call it redneck engineering.

 

[Rigjockey]

I used to deliver to a lot of food places. The one in Chicago proper, I remember having a foot operated sink. By my estimations it was from the 50s-60s.

Great place to deliver in regards to friendliness and quick off-load times but a bitch to get in and out of. One of those areas where the buildings are 100 years old.

Just a side note. The guys working there had the real authentic Chicago accent.
Like Chicaaugo. Da' Bears!

 

[Duck]

I used to deliver to a lot of food places. The one in Chicago proper, I remember having a foot operated sink. By my estimations it was from the 50s-60s.

Great place to deliver in regards to friendliness and quick off-load times but a bitch to get in and out of. One of those areas where the buildings are 100 years old.

Just a side note. The guys working there had the real authentic Chicago accent.
Like Chicaaugo. Da' Bears!

Authentic Chicago accent?

"Willis Tower' is pronounced "Sears Tower".

It's one of those weird things about the English language that non-English speakers have difficulty with.

 

[Rigjockey]

Authentic Chicago accent?

"Willis Tower' is pronounced "Sears Tower".

It's one of those weird things about the English language that non-English speakers have difficulty with.

I still call it the Sears tower. I didn't even know the new name. I knew it had a new name I just never bothered to learn it.

 

[Duck]

I still call it the Sears tower. I didn't even know the new name. I knew it had a new name I just never bothered to learn it.

I think Willis is some group of rich people in England who bought the tower.

 

[Electric Chicken]

I think Willis is some group of rich people in England who bought the tower.

Nah it's named after Die Hard. The greatest Christmas movie of all time.

 

[Rigjockey]

I think Willis is some group of rich people in England who bought the tower.

In that case, I have to say Sears tower. Watchu talkin bout Willis?