Awesome, thanks for the tip, Ratty.

That looks pretty awesome. Where did you source that Spandex fabric? And if you don't mind, how cheap is cheap?

I needed to go the restroom, so when they turned off the seat-belt light I called the attendant over to ask how much that was going to cost me. You joke, but IIRC Ryan Air actually tried to do that a few years ago. The backlash was harsh and immediate, and they ended up backpedaling, but the way ai...

My understanding is that truck tires are usually radial tires, because when you are accelerating or braking, the forces acting upon the tire are in the direction of the movement, and radial tires are better at that. Trailer tires are usually bias tires, which are not as good with forces in the direc...

Interesting. Maybe I should have said: "They're supposed to".

But I have met several people who had their vehicles get put in D-lot by gate because they didn't have the letter. I have no idea what percentage they check though.

You probably know this, but just in case: Gate will want to see the DMV invite letter if you are trailering an MV in. Make sure you have it accessible at the gate.

Shoeshine, you do *not* need to get in line with the MVs. If there is any confusion, make sure you tell them that your vehicle is human powered and you are only there for the flame inspection. Ask for a place called 'Salem's Lot'. That's where FAST does the flame inspection. Note that technically yo...

This is of course impossible to answer since you don't provide any details about the leds or the batteries. But here is some math to get you started. Let's assume your strip has 60 leds per meter and each led draws 200mW. That gives you about 1A per meter. You have 33 meters, so that's 33A. If you h...

Costco carports are definitely playa proven, I'd highly recommend it over the ez ups. A work of warning for anchoring the carport. Neighbors of ours had theirs insufficiently secured, and in a storm the carport broke free. It flew thru the air high enough to clear another car port, then started roll...

Like i said it depends on the model. Even Honda, it depends on the model. My friends farm model honda is loud, so depends on the model. I don't know who that original guy was that you were talking to, but certainly no one here says that any Honda is good and any other generator is bad. When people ...

willyloafofphora wrote:I remember the deadline used to be in june.

The last time it was in June was five years ago.

But this year it was earlier than the last few years, because of the new process they use. If you follow the links in trilo's post on top, you can find all the details about it.

Yes, I was not using that corded impact wrench. We don't have a generator, otherwise I would have gone for that one. I used the 18 Volt 1/4 in. Cordless Variable Speed Hex Impact Driver ( Item Nr 68853 ). It did OK with 3/8" lag screws, but struggled with the 1/2". What's worse, with one charge it w...

Any recommendations on 3/8" vs 1/2" dia? The latter should have much higher pullout strength, but how hard is it to screw into the playa? Anyone tried 18"? When I ordered them last year I got 3/8" 14" (that was the longest they had in 3/8") and, because I was concerned about them being strong enoug...

Has anyone heard back from DMV? What was the wait time previous years? Thanks. Any data from previous years will be useless as they have a completely different process this year. Afaik, some people have recieved answers already, but the majority of applications will go thru serveral rounds, so it c...

There is a container service run by the borg. That's what most people use. The containers are stored on the Ranch, I believe. You can't access them outside of BM though. I'm not sure what the exact status of the program is. There may be a waiting list. If you go with someone else, then as Gaminwench...

Dr Helix wrote:I have seen DMV raise the bar almost every year since I've been bringing an MV to BM (2008).

I think the DMV likes to say that it wasn't them who raised the bar, it was the builders who brought better and better cars year after year.

But I wholly agree with what you said, Dr Helix.

Ratty wrote:If you're in a country other than the U.S. or Canada you may have to pick them up at will call.

That used to be the case, but I think as of last year (or before?) they *do* mail them internationally.

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remi wrote:I would hope that the moop map results would also weigh into this decision.... but that's just my opinion.

They do. Takes a lot of red (or the dreaded Black Spot), but they do.

Case in point: Flower Power Gypsy camp probably didn't get DGS tickets this year.

A few years ago someone in the AEZ had built a hexayurt that used six inch velcro strips instead of tape. I liked the idea, though I remember checking afterwards and the six inch velcro was hard to find and quite pricey.

Melodiousdirge, the locks you referred to are quite common in Germany, and probably elsewhere in Europe. They are commonly known as 'Speichenschloss', which translates to 'Spoke-Lock'. There is a simple variant which just slides sideways into the spokes (http://s28.photobucket.com/user/182grad/media...

melodiousdirge wrote:I guess going to a much larger diameter had significantly more of an effect than I thought.

We had 14" 3/8" diameter and 18" 1/2" diameter. The 1/2" seemed to go in *significantly* slower and harder than the 3/8. So going to 5/8 I wouldn't be surprised at all if those were a bitch to put in.

Also, are 10ft lengths long enough, or would longer be better. We are test setting it up this weekend, haven't taken it out of the box yet. Longer is better. We had some that were too short, and you end up coming to the ground at a steep angle. Because of that the rebar had to be at a steep angle a...

This exact text (including the weird 15 year thing) has been posted multiple times, by multiple people. It's a scam.

Edit:

there are Two reddit threads with the same guy

No, unless someone wrote a app specifically for BM tickets that checked the voided ticket list, then no, a normal QR scanner app wouldn't know that it's a burning man ticket and wouldn't check the voided ticket list. That said, gate will probably scan the code, and they obviously would check if the ...

My pump draws 500mA and the fan draws 1.6 A, wired per figjam's instructions (parallel?) for a total of 2.1A (?) That's correct. The 8-pack of D alkaline batteries totals 12V (?) Correct. Eveready's D batteries are rated at about 10,000mAh at a draw of 500mA (http://data.energizer.com/PDFs/E95.pdf)...

the VP programme *has* to push the community to bring less vehicles, that's the whole point. Yes, but there are two knobs they can turn to achieve that. They can raise the price, or they can reduce the numbers. If they raise the price, it becomes more economical to car pool. Heck, they could even r...

You can run one cable, and then hook several of these strands up to the same cable, as long as they are wired in parallel. The cable just needs to be thick enough for the load. Looks like each strand would pull 0.5 Amp, so if you hooked ten strands to one cable, it would need to be able to supply 5 ...

I actually thought Deep Cycle batteries were designed to be drained deep, but I keep getting mixed information about whether this is true or not. Deep Cycle batteries can certainly go much lower than a regular car battery. Car batteries are designed to give a fairly high current for a couple of sec...

For those of you who bought an older cargo van or truck, how do you go about ensuring reliability? I think I *really* would prefer to not break down on my way to or from the burn. Bring it on the other fifty weeks of the year, but not when I'm loaded to the gills with my whole camp. Obviously you ca...

You can check the Burning Man census (PDF warning)

According to their data:

0-19: 1.4%
20-29: 30%
30-39: 35.2%
40+ : 33.9