RogerS
Established Member
Over-engineering.....Definition....to over-specify, over-egg, get out of proportion, all three.
LOML asked me to make her a couple of cold frames. Design discussions led me to use some of my air dried oak...and for it to be dismantleable after winter..which meant making effectively four frame sides with sturdy corner posts. Further design discussions led to having two of the side panels also glazed to get in maximum light and then I heard a voice suggesting that it would be very easy to make the top and side glazed panels double-glazed!
Which then raised the question how a 39" square doubled glazed lid (circa 25kg) could be made to open more easily...which naturally led onto gas struts and which is why I now am fiddling around with little models trying to work out where the hell I'm going to fix them and spending hours gazing at the gas struts on my car tailgate and scratching my head trying to see how they work and let the tailgate close...current thinking is that the struts, like tape measures and Stanley knives, disappear into the 4th dimension just as they disappear out of sight as the tailgate finally closes.
Ne'er was KISS so sorely missed!
Roger
LOML asked me to make her a couple of cold frames. Design discussions led me to use some of my air dried oak...and for it to be dismantleable after winter..which meant making effectively four frame sides with sturdy corner posts. Further design discussions led to having two of the side panels also glazed to get in maximum light and then I heard a voice suggesting that it would be very easy to make the top and side glazed panels double-glazed!
Which then raised the question how a 39" square doubled glazed lid (circa 25kg) could be made to open more easily...which naturally led onto gas struts and which is why I now am fiddling around with little models trying to work out where the hell I'm going to fix them and spending hours gazing at the gas struts on my car tailgate and scratching my head trying to see how they work and let the tailgate close...current thinking is that the struts, like tape measures and Stanley knives, disappear into the 4th dimension just as they disappear out of sight as the tailgate finally closes.
Ne'er was KISS so sorely missed!
Roger