KennethW: thanks. Love the solar panels and the dog.
QueticoBill: heat expansion is my anxiety, too. I need a compromise between ignoring it and overkill. I cannot quantify the force generated by a thin sheet (it is large for metals generally but different considerations apply for a thin sheet constrained in one plane). Anyway I don’t think it can be mechanically contained. Does anyone know where to find the force of expansion of thin sheet aluminium?
CharlieI; Durasips are interesting.
rruff: I will get a carpet seam roller, thanks. And I will run up a sample composite with the PL Premium and one other glue to test against epoxy, thanks for the tip. The look I am after is “expensive and well-engineered" but I am cheap and untrained. There is at this moment a certain psycho-dynamic tension in me. (DIY generates PDT like clouds generate rain, thats why people buy everything. They’re afraid. Imagine all the hard work and disappointment they are missing. People who buy everything become soft and end up in nursing homes. People who make everything are found face down in their workshops but still smiling, they were enjoying themselves right up until the explosion occurred. In New Zealand we believe anything can be self-built if you have enough mates and don’t run out of Lion Brown. In some remote districts you cannot leave school until you have built an off-road vehicle, a log splitter and an automatic rotisserie that takes 400lb pigs). (Girls included). ( If you ever come here, though, watch out Kiwis are shocking liars.)
Are sites like TNTTT in fact therapeutic encounter groups for the DIY damaged? I must ask Mike if he got the idea from his psychiatrist.
(I do hope you share my sense of humour; I suspect you do).
GPW: Love the lego and the foamstream.
Below is a picture of foam stood up in a spare room while we tried out sizes and floorplans.