Captain Goddammit wrote: ↑

Sat Oct 13, 2018 6:57 am

... All this anti-burner-project propaganda coming from burners is amusing. ...

Is it anti-burner? Is it propaganda? Is it amusing?
Or is it anti-screwups, that can screw it up for so many other Burner projects, built with Burner blood, sweat & tears?

Repeated New Kindergarten Teacher Trainee level attempts at manipulation.
sigh

You’re all proving my point. Not even close. You’re arguing over whether it’s art or not, and what else to do to expand on it, etc. More like, what can possibly be done with it. One of the biggest complaints about it was the lines to get in it. No shit sherlock. With lines to get into BRC, out of B...

Would it have enough leverage to do the work on a long and/or thick bolt, and in the soil where the impact drivers start to run out of oomph?

Coroplast glue test
https://www.christinedemerchant.com/coroplast-glue-test.html

LOL! I was going to build similar as a roof-installable for my car and my trailer. Only copper, not ceramic. With the upper water also being an evap "pond" for chilling, with a lift up to an evap area by capillary sheets. But that drawing shows a tight fit for the water jacket. Looks like it's relyi...

Sometimes it just feels like:

Ride The Short Bus

AntiM wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 27, 2018 5:59 am

Glitter Monkey Rodeo.

I like.
Except for all the idiots who will show up MOOPing glitter all around.

Captain Goddammit wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 10, 2018 7:28 pm

You know, all this discussion about the plane is what makes it great art. ...

nah
That might be if the discussion was about 'what it means' or some such, instead of 'what does the cluster-fuck getting it removed from the playa mean'.

That it's beautiful goes right over my head, but it is a plane.

What we really need is a second 747 identical to the one already there so they can join them ass-end to ballast the thing and make the worlds biggest teeter-totter. Load it up, get the rave going, retract both nose wheels half way. Let the party rage!Dramamine for everyone!!! That sounds like it co...

Ratty wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 10, 2018 4:58 pm

Exactly how much time am I required to spend on your insanity?

Your choice, or your insanity?

Thanks for the details, and the links. Interesting to see the baffles out of Coroplast. I wouldn't have expected that to be strong enough. That will certainly make construction easier. Good knowing about the Loctite 401. Are you happy with the 401? As in, would you use 401 again, or would you try PL...

... Add a precool stage using exhaust air ... Pre-chilling is certainly worth doing, but perhaps not with exhaust air. But with what you are able to build, you could certainly take some of the chilled water and use that for a liquid-to-air pre-chiller for the incoming evap cooler air. Which would b...

... I kind of want to see them either do more with it or not bring it back. ... Sounds great, but given 2018's events, perhaps it may be better to bring it back pretty much as it is, to keep the round-trip to/at/from BRC as simple and straightforward as possible? Demonstrate to the powers-that-be t...

With that Coroplast construction I'm pretty sure I can work out putting headers on an extension of the straight-through layers for a water-to-air heat exchanger. But the cross-section would need to be over double that of the airflow cross-section/pipe-size. It'd be nicer if I could use the straight-...

Dead? Unfortunately not. There's the various exit/removal/rescue issues that rose their head, etc., etc., that it attracted attention, and as in the press and elsewhere, the possibility, even expectation, of consequences in the future. Hope the powers-that-be keep in mind that in the end what's requ...

And I've found the sheet-strip-sheet-strip, etc., Coroplast construction method online, but they were all building cross-flow designs: One guy started using silicone (but not clear, so you can see it), but switched to using double-sided tape as it was easier. Also examples of heat-welded at the edge...

I'm almost positive that the left-most lane at Greeters is never manned (before or during the event) and is meant to be exactly what you are looking for. But if there is a Greeter around, feel free to correct me. Someone from Gate has always asked and directed me to a low/no greet lane. Usually tow...

You inspired me. I went googling. I found a description of dual-core plate cross-flow, and how the actual airflow (not the diagram arrows), not just that it is two stages, has better than cross-flow performance. . dual-core cross-flow.gif . Which lead to looking at commercial counter-flow cores. Sud...

... couples an evaporative cooler with an air-to-air heat transfer unit, i.e. Indirect Evaporative Cooling as they say in the HVAC-biz. ... EVAPORATIVE COOLER: The evaporative cooler is built into a plastic footlocker and uses modern cardboard-honeycomb evaporative media to achieve 30degF+ temperat...

... I'm sure future projects of this kind is going to require a lot more hoops, planning documents, engineering approvals, etc. -- essentially filing a complete permit -- to allow such things on the playa again. The event is ever changing as people push into uncharted territory. I believe that is t...

LOL

I'm thinking of lightning.

I want to address some of the comments that followed my last one, but I haven't got time right now. But I am posting as I had a thought that maybe those that parked the 747 out there may want to check if it matters. As a kid, around many airplanes, I'd often help ground the aircraft (ran a wire to g...

... If the Big Imagination crew didn’t build what you’d have built, good. That’s what keeps things interesting. Exactly. Which is why I wonder how many wonderful, different, creative, pondering, thought provoking, contemplating, delighting, calming, stimulating things could have been created and br...

Ratty wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 03, 2018 7:00 pm

... 12 foot high interactive sculptures...

Good example. How many sculptures or interactive pieces could have been brought to the playa for the efforts put into the 747?

... The 747 fit right into what Burning Man is and how things come together... It doesn't feel that way to me. But it obviously did to many others who provided funds, blood, sweat & tears. ... project that involved a huge amount of people and money... Since I first heard of the project, and all alo...

For the typical plastic tap water containers, you can always rig up a pair of paint stir sticks to bolt to enclose the handle of the "tap". A spring or bungee cord pulls the handle 'closed'. A foot pedal pulling down with a spring or bungee cord section that is routed to pull the handle 'open' (the ...

Predicting a sad post sometime around next May. I'll hedge my bets and call either sunk deeply into mud (in an artistic tilted fashion) or some really impressive bullet holes and fire scars. yup not good Should hold a prediction contest: Date of first bullet hole? Number of holes by Aug 2019? Numbe...

So it didn't make it all the way North to the airport? But wow it sure moved.

Look at how the footprints broke through the soil crust.
I hope they make sure all of the tire tracks upstream of it get smoothed over so they can't end up channelling any water into flowing into there.

I had bottled water, Gatoraid, mugs, Emergen-C, sunscreen on a small wagon/cooler towed behind my bike. I'd setup wherever on the playa. People would watch others pick up whatever, then come over and give me more stuff to handout to others: honey sticks, vinegar packets, pedialyte, more sunblock, mu...