• xia@lemmy.sdf.org
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      6 hours ago

      I found the structural engineer!

      No, seriously though… I’m shocked at how many people don’t recall “building block” level logic (as in the toys for babies). I even find contractors willing to make structural modifications to homes, bluffing their way through absurd structure ideas (where my roof would have to magically be floating in the air) where the consequences include human life.

      IMO, we should all see the image on the right as wrong, as the entire surface payload (whatever you place on top of it) is resting on the four fasteners (and a shearing force on a tiny bit of the particle-board wood).

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          18 hours ago

          The worst is when you see them the wrong way like this and with vinyl records in them, they’re very popular with collectors since they’re just the right size and you can keep adding more of them easily as your collection grows, but records are damn heavy so having themn the wrong way around is a disaster waiting to happen.