Posted on 10/08/2018 1:10:59 PM PDT by sodpoodle
Shirley, an elderly nursing home resident, got her jollies by bursting into male residents’ rooms, throwing open her robe, and yelling “Super Sex!!”
Her naked form and loud exclamation always shocked the men, and she delighted in their surprise.
However, one day, upon executing her routine, a male resident hardly responded at all.
Slowly looking up from his paper, then back down to it, he casually replied “Oh, I guess I’ll have the soup.”
This is a bad one I heard yesterday.
Why is six afraid of seven?
Because seven took some PCP and is going apes$$t.
"Insulating glass (IG), more commonly known as double glazing (or double-pane, and increasingly triple glazing[1]/pane), consists of two or three glass window panes separated by a vacuum or gas filled space to reduce heat transfer across a part of the building envelope."
Under vacuum generally means pumped to a very low pressure via a vacuum pump. While it's certainly possible for a negative pressure to be present because of temperature change, this is kind of trivial in terms of contributing to energy efficiency +/- in a modern window.
If I say something when I’m in the forest and my wife doesn’t hear me, am I still wrong?
1. It certainly happens that a fast talking salesman can lay a line on a gullible mark to net a big sale. Happens every day somewhere for something. My favorite that I have come across a couple of times is a salesman selling to a customer a 2 year supply of an expensive specialty chemical that has a 6 month shelf life. The salesman pockets a big commission then quits and goes to work somewhere else effectively disappearing. His old employer is left holding the bag for compensating the gullible customer that didn't do his homework.
2. Let's say that the full house of windows was replaced at $10,000. It actually could be lots more depending on how many windows and whether they are low cost builders grade or expensive high end. The story says he didn't pay the bill. Well he financed the window job then so that means he is either has financing through a bank via Visa, MasterCard kind of way or HD card, which is via a bank. The bank is going after the homeowner via judgment, lien and garnishment kinds of options. Not fun. Pay me now or pay me later. HD I think also has a project loan that is HD direct financed. Ditto the judgment, lien and garnishment comment above.
3. HD and Lowes kinds of companies do many hundreds of millions of dollars of installations per year. Their installation contracts do not have loopholes. They are not here today gone tomorrow kinds of companies and there is no profit in screwing someone as the story describes. However the world is not perfect and if there were provable shady dealings involved their self interest would probably weigh to some sort of settlement. If this is a high jack then I suspect they would legally come at the home owner and give him a world of financial hurt and possibly criminal extortion claims if they get really teed off at the purchaser.
I was working near another engineer once who was attempting to arrange flow of dry nitrogen through a plastic cabinet which was in the shape of a cube, one foot on each side.
He had a regulator between the nitrogen source and the cabinet and a pressure gauge monitoring pressure in the box.
As I was watching he had the access door to the cabinet closed and was cranking up the pressure. I think the gauge read about 10 psi. Since each face of the cubic box was 144 square inches I was able to quickly approximate that the pressure on each face must be 10 times 144 or about 1500 pounds. That's right. About three quarters of a ton pushing on a thin sheet of plastic
Just as I was about to warn him about the danger of what he was doing, the pressure blew the back out of the box launching it into his leg. It left a good bruise but didn't break the skin. I was just a second or two late in my warning.
If we apply the same calculation to a window pane which is, for example, three feet on a side, that would be about ten square feet or 1440 inches. If the pressure on one side of the window was just 5 pounds (one third of atmospheric pressure) that would put a force on the window of 5 times 1440 pounds, or about 7000 pounds. That would be about 3.5 tons. It would be like putting the entire weight of your car on the window.
Years ago (about 1973), I found out those very things you explained about the N2 box when I put about 6 pound of pressure into a $4500.00 high purity French quartz epitaxial tube. Kaboom.
I'm thinking that it is probably impossible to have a career in technology and not have at least one costly incident that proves humans are fallible.
For some reason I evidently woke up one day missing some of my IQ points. I failed to kill the power to a minicomputer system while changing an interface board. I did about $10k in damage.
Over the years I have heard colleagues relating their horrors. I doubt any of us escape.
And vice versa. If the frames are metal, double panes will not help.
That’s why I said you were both right.
And vice versa. If the frames are metal, double panes will not help.
That’s why I said you were both right.
And, of course, everything has to be set in properly so there are no leaks.
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