Evan
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Our house has an attached cast concrete underground cold storage room. It is about 6' x 8' x 6 1/2' and entered from inside the basement down a short...

The bigger and more powerful the tornado the more people and property that can be saved by simply reinforcing the foundation and roof attachments....

That means a direct hit. There is always a much larger zone outside the core that will experience all sorts of intermediate wind speeds where the...

No. That isn't necessary. Not attaching the roof with $25 worth of galvanized straps is inexcusable. That will hold it on in most tornadoes. If you...

Have a look at houses on Guam. They don't look much different than usual. Until you look real close. Most are built of concrete cast with exterior...

Tornadoes don't happen everywhere. It takes flat land for a funnel to build up. It's cause by horizontal rolling wind that then turns vertical. That...

You may be looking at an unsolvable problem. The eproms from that time period only have a 10 to 15 year retention spec, powered or unpowered. Once...

Stirling coolers have been developed for use on satellites for spot cooling of semiconductors. Some are tiny, only a few cubic inches. They are far...

Maybe some kits. There are CA glues intended for plastics such as PTFE. I don't think the Sodium Bicarbonate trick will work there. The PTFE kit...

Not quite but close. Critical pressure is the pressure required to liquefy a gas at its critical temperature. Also, critical temperature applies to...

From the article: "and that they've already applied for a patent." That should be interesting. Patent where? The US Patent Office has a very long...

I don't play the lotto so I never lose. Were I to suddenly gain that sort of money I would give most of it away, mostly for educational use and real...

And yet he is now again the richest man in the world. Giving his money away must agree with him. Every picture I see of him in the last few years he...

That is a DVI 18 pin. Completely useless. The more common 20 pin type has more pins between the two groups. The current DVI standard has 24 pins ...

There is another way to gain that sort of influence. Be the editor/owner of the local newspaper. My daughter is still coming to terms with that after...

If you insist on repairing it then use a hole saw to cut a piece from the gear itself. To match the replacement into the gear also use a one size...

He already has enough. It's time to let some others feed at the trough. I would drive many miles to shop at a place like that. Materials are the base...

Everything on a South Bend is made to fractional inches with very few exceptions. That includes the length of parts and the spacing of holes. If...

I am not putting down the project. I merely pointed out there is a good reason to use wood for stringed instruments. Other types of instruments are...

My 1937 or '8 SB9 has 1 1/2 x 8 threads.

One would think so. Music wire is severely work hardened by drawing and has huge built in strains. When heated mildly the coefficient of length...

I knew somebody would mention a piano. A piano is a compromise in many ways, the cast iron string frame is just one of them. The basic tuning of a...

There is a very good reason for using wood in stringed instruments. Wood has a nearly zero coefficient of linear expansion with change in...

True evil does exist.

Give the tape a few twists between insulators. That will stop it from fluttering.

No, you aren't. That was my first thought. The shape of the tube is a close second. Filling the tube is a very good plan.

I am certainly glad I didn't start a thread on limericks. I'll save that for another year (when the mod is on vacation).

Wes, the problem is that the over-treatment is not just expensive but is causing a lot of uneeded stress and anxiety for people that do not need to...

Some horses don't care about electric fences. We had one that would stand with her nose an inch from the wire to time the shocks. She could sense the...

Seeing that I do have some Jewish ancestry I feel entitled to publish the punch line from this joke...(in light of the advent of Shavuot) I...