KONCHOK.PENDAY
2009-05-10 09:59:32 UTC
KP2009MAY09 SUBS #17: MINISUBS
Architectural CAD programs such as Autocad are very
well suited for planning SUBS structures. I used
a [$99] two-dimensional one for the SUBS articles.
That's vastly better than trying to hand-draw
illustrations of SUBS parts. Whole buildings
are impossible for most people to hand draw.
However, CAD programs are extremely expensive.
The industry leader, Autocad, is over $2,000,
just for the SOFTWARE, for one workstation!
That's more $ than the computer it runs on!
===============================
That is more than modest SUBS
structures would cost to BUILD!
===============================
JUST FOR ONE PIECE OF SOFTWARE!
Which you can't even find
in the finished building!
Never mind the guy who
knows how to run it!
It's cost-effective for big architectural firms
which charge million$ of dollar$ just to DE$IGN
big buildings for big business or big government.
It's *completely* insane for the private citizen who
wants to design a modest building to live in himself!
He needs a small, cheap, readily available, single-
purpose ANALOG COMPUTER to design his own structures.
A reliable slide rule rather than
a digital-disaster money $ink-hOle!
======================
THAT'S CALLED A MODEL!
======================
When I was a kid one of my favorite toys was a
set of small red plastic bricks you could build
doll-sized buildings with. They were the size
of a domino, and mimicked the "eight" with two
sets of four prongs that nested four directions.
I learned SO MUCH from building with those blocks!
I don't know if I ever knew the brand name, but I
never forgot what I learned from playing with them!
I can still see some of those buildings in my head!
================================================
FLUSH THE HEXPENSIVE COMPUTER MODELING FOR SUBS!
================================================
We need a cheap SUBS model to work out designs
from our very limited set of component parts.
It's MUCH better to have a real solid
three-dimensional model to look at than
the fanciest two-dimensional depiction.
AND IT'S HUGELY CHEAPER!
==============================
THE OBVIOUS SIZE RATIO IS 1:12
ONE MODEL INCH = ONE REAL FOOT
==============================
So a typical panel would be
four inches by eight inches,
and a half inch thick.
Now IF SUBS were patented,
the logical thing to do
would be to license Leggo
or Mattel or some big toy
company to manufacture and
sell MINISUBS, but it's not.
Rather than have ONE source,
which legally monopolizes the
industry with 17-year patent
protection, we can have many
sources, who are completely
independent, and free to do
whatever the fuck they want.
Instead of one company collecting
ALL of the patent royalties, we'll
have MANY companies independently
making and selling MINISUBS, and
making all the profit themselves.
MINISUBS IS A FABULOUS TOY FOR KIDS.
As much as I learned from my red blocks,
I couldn't directly translate that to
real buildings, because real buildings
are not made out of red plastic blocks,
or I would have been a child prodigy!
MINISUBS IS A TRUE SCALE
MODEL OF A REAL BUILDING!
IT WORKS JUST LIKE
THE THING IT MODELS!
Ain't that convenient!
So anything thing you can build with MINISUBS,
you can build with SUBS, and move right in to!
Ain't that convenient!
Everything you learn
playing as a kid is
just the same when
you are all grown up!
Ain't that convenient!
Junior can design a
garage add-on just
as well as dad can!
And make a panel list
to buy! And build it!
?Before dad gets home?
Ain't that convenient!
You can be a
REAL ARCHITECT,
at age 6 or 8,
with no computer!
Ain't that convenient!
OK. So far, I've got the
product and the design, and
I know the scale factor.
Now I need something
to make it out of.
I looked in my trash.
I have tin cans, rotten food,
and a whole lot of plastic.
Some is styrofoam, which is useless, but
I have lots of *free* plastic shopping bags,
from many different stores, in a wide variety
of colors. I have gallon milk jugs. I have
plastic garbage bags, both white and black.
I have clear plastic zip-lock bags. I have
clear plastic produce bags. I have hard
plastic containers from frozen juices.
Either it was given to me free, or I bought
a product, and that was the container!
SO IT'S ALL FREE!
IN FACT, I PAY
TO GET RID OF IT!
IT'S *GARBAGE*!
ONE OF THE VERY
FEW INDUSTRIAL
COMMODITIES
YOU CAN GET
DELIVERED
FOR FREE!
AND THEY CHARGE A
KING'S RANSOM TO
STEAL FROM YOU!
THAT'S what you
*really* want to
make things from!
The most delightful thing about
most of this plastic is that it
is THERMO-PLASTIC! When you
heat it up, it melts. When you
cool it down, it goes back to
being whatever it was before
you heated it up. You can do
this as many times as you like.
It doesn't ever "cook"
and become something else.
It's like ice, but it melts
at a much higher temperature!
That means that you can
TAKE YOUR HOUSEHOLD TRASH
AND MAKE SOMETHING USEFUL
OUT OF IT. SAVE GARBAGE!
SAVE GARBAGE COLLECTION COSTS!
MAKE SOMETHING USEFUL
FOR NO MATERIALS COST!
MAKE MINISUBS
FROM TRASH!
Ain't that convenient!
Now we've got a design,
a material, and a FREE
source for the material!
WAY COOL!
We're off to
a great start!
Next we need something
to melt our plastic in.
It's mostly complex carbon
cross-linked chains, and we
need to heat it hot enough
to make it melt, but not burn.
HOW ABOUT A WAFFLE IRON?
SUBS PANELS ARE BUILT
VERY SIMILAR TO WAFFLES.
Waffle irons heat soup made from
water and complex carbon cross-
linked chains intil they react
and produce a phase change.
BUT DON'T BURN THE CARBON!
That ought to be
somewhere in the
right ball park
for temperature!
And they make
groovy little
panels, very
much like SUBS!
Waffle irons cost
$5 to $8 at Goodwill,
so I got a whole mess
of them for about $30!
I now have an assortment of
waffle sizes and patterns.
One of my favorites is
about 4"x8", just the size
I want my MINISUBS panels!
Ain't that convenient!
So I fired up my waffle iron and
started melting my plastic trash!
===================
IT WORKS FANTASTIC!
===================
White milk jugs make a
very dense, hard white panel.
Thin shopping bags with handles
in different colors make wonderful
camouflage patterns. Black garbage
bags make slick looking black panels
that are very slightly flexible.
These are TOUGH panels. You can't
nearly break them by hand. I can
barely flex the black one enough to
see. I can't flex milk jugs at all.
They're harder than hell to smash
with a 28 ounce framing hammer!
And these are just plastic WAFFLES!
Judging crudely, the strength
is pretty comparable to wood!
Of course they are completely
color-fast and water-proof.
You can leave your plastic SUBS doll
house out in the dirt and weather.
If necessary, you can clean
it with soap and water ...
thru a pressure washer!
Just spray silicone lubricant
mold release on the iron and all
parts that liquid plastic touchs,
or your mold will glue shut when
it cools. The extra plastic that
oozes out you can cut or break off.
SUBS-design panels would be
much stronger than waffles,
which are designed to cook
fast and catch butter and
syrup, not to be structural.
Waffle irons seem to be
the perfect temperature
for bags and milk jugs,
but harder plastic bottles
don't melt well in them.
So now we have
a temperature
range too!
A waffle iron combines
both the heating element
and the molding pattern.
A common ordinary
electric skillet
will heat higher
and lower than a
waffle iron, and
is big enough for
a two-panel mold
that's about 8"x8".
There's your heat souce!
Under $10 at Goodwill!
It'll melt those harder plastics!
Or dial down for the softest ones!
This allows you to separate
the heating element from
the mold itself. Heat with
a cheap common *used* item!
And the heat disinfects any organic
crud left on the plastic, so you
don't have to worry about germs.
Now all kids can
MAKE THEIR OWN TOYS
out of garbage they
collect from neighbors!
As easy as waffles!
Ain't that convenient!
And learn how
real buildings
are built in
the process!
Ain't that convenient!
There is one area where
the 1:12 scale runs into
a problem. When you scale
a 1/2" bolt down to 1/24",
you're dealing with very
fine threads and tiny nuts
and washers. It doesn't work.
But of course, the other option,
of nailing the panels together,
scales down perfectly! Instead
of a 16 penny nail or duplex nail,
you fire a wire brad from your
finish nail gun to nail panels
together! Instead of a 3 foot
bar to tear them apart, you
use a screwdriver! You use a
long or short nail where you
would use long or short bolts
in a full-scale SUBS building.
Mom and Dad can borrow
the kids toys to design
grandma's new room, and
get a materials list too!
Stack the parts and count!
Ain't that convenient!
The mold for a standard panel
is very simple! The lower part
is an open box 4"x8"x1/2" deep.
The upper part, hinged to it,
has two boxes, about half as
big. The space between them
is filled with melted plastic
to form the sheet-on-frame
of a SUBS panel. One mold
would make two panels in
your typical frying pan.
Ain't that convenient!
The molds could be made
of aluminum, or of
whatever waffle irons
are made of. Or maybe
from some cheap ceramic
that starts plastic and
cures to a hard, durable
thermo-transmitter suitable
for a high-temmperature mold.
The molds are what
we do NOT have yet.
How would YOU do it?
Whoever makes the molds
will be at the top of
the SUBS food chain.
Until someone starts selling
machines that make the molds!
And someone starts making molds for
4'x8'x6" panels MADE FROM MILK JUGS!
They're hard and dense and tough as nails.
I guess they're STRONGER than wood.
If not, they're pretty damn close!
And they're waterproof,
and don't ever need paint!
And if you ever get tired
of them, you can melt them
down, and make something else!
That's my idea of a
really great product!
Use it indefinitely,
with no maintenance
or other costs, and
then melt it down,
and make something
completely new!
=====================
ALL FROM CRAP YOU GOT
FOR FREE AT THE DUMP!
=====================
THAT'S WHAT KILLS ME!
I'm *really* proud
of this one! I JUST
CAN'T STOP LAUGHING!
USED MILK JUGS
WOULD MAKE GREAT
FULL-SIZED PANELS!
Who shall be so bold
as to make a mold?
PHOTOS TO COME
but I have to
take them yet.
O
--- )
\
Bill Dur
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PERMALINK: http://net-prophet.net/blog/?p=879
SUBS Home Page: http://net-prophet.net/subs
Architectural CAD programs such as Autocad are very
well suited for planning SUBS structures. I used
a [$99] two-dimensional one for the SUBS articles.
That's vastly better than trying to hand-draw
illustrations of SUBS parts. Whole buildings
are impossible for most people to hand draw.
However, CAD programs are extremely expensive.
The industry leader, Autocad, is over $2,000,
just for the SOFTWARE, for one workstation!
That's more $ than the computer it runs on!
===============================
That is more than modest SUBS
structures would cost to BUILD!
===============================
JUST FOR ONE PIECE OF SOFTWARE!
Which you can't even find
in the finished building!
Never mind the guy who
knows how to run it!
It's cost-effective for big architectural firms
which charge million$ of dollar$ just to DE$IGN
big buildings for big business or big government.
It's *completely* insane for the private citizen who
wants to design a modest building to live in himself!
He needs a small, cheap, readily available, single-
purpose ANALOG COMPUTER to design his own structures.
A reliable slide rule rather than
a digital-disaster money $ink-hOle!
======================
THAT'S CALLED A MODEL!
======================
When I was a kid one of my favorite toys was a
set of small red plastic bricks you could build
doll-sized buildings with. They were the size
of a domino, and mimicked the "eight" with two
sets of four prongs that nested four directions.
I learned SO MUCH from building with those blocks!
I don't know if I ever knew the brand name, but I
never forgot what I learned from playing with them!
I can still see some of those buildings in my head!
================================================
FLUSH THE HEXPENSIVE COMPUTER MODELING FOR SUBS!
================================================
We need a cheap SUBS model to work out designs
from our very limited set of component parts.
It's MUCH better to have a real solid
three-dimensional model to look at than
the fanciest two-dimensional depiction.
AND IT'S HUGELY CHEAPER!
==============================
THE OBVIOUS SIZE RATIO IS 1:12
ONE MODEL INCH = ONE REAL FOOT
==============================
So a typical panel would be
four inches by eight inches,
and a half inch thick.
Now IF SUBS were patented,
the logical thing to do
would be to license Leggo
or Mattel or some big toy
company to manufacture and
sell MINISUBS, but it's not.
Rather than have ONE source,
which legally monopolizes the
industry with 17-year patent
protection, we can have many
sources, who are completely
independent, and free to do
whatever the fuck they want.
Instead of one company collecting
ALL of the patent royalties, we'll
have MANY companies independently
making and selling MINISUBS, and
making all the profit themselves.
MINISUBS IS A FABULOUS TOY FOR KIDS.
As much as I learned from my red blocks,
I couldn't directly translate that to
real buildings, because real buildings
are not made out of red plastic blocks,
or I would have been a child prodigy!
MINISUBS IS A TRUE SCALE
MODEL OF A REAL BUILDING!
IT WORKS JUST LIKE
THE THING IT MODELS!
Ain't that convenient!
So anything thing you can build with MINISUBS,
you can build with SUBS, and move right in to!
Ain't that convenient!
Everything you learn
playing as a kid is
just the same when
you are all grown up!
Ain't that convenient!
Junior can design a
garage add-on just
as well as dad can!
And make a panel list
to buy! And build it!
?Before dad gets home?
Ain't that convenient!
You can be a
REAL ARCHITECT,
at age 6 or 8,
with no computer!
Ain't that convenient!
OK. So far, I've got the
product and the design, and
I know the scale factor.
Now I need something
to make it out of.
I looked in my trash.
I have tin cans, rotten food,
and a whole lot of plastic.
Some is styrofoam, which is useless, but
I have lots of *free* plastic shopping bags,
from many different stores, in a wide variety
of colors. I have gallon milk jugs. I have
plastic garbage bags, both white and black.
I have clear plastic zip-lock bags. I have
clear plastic produce bags. I have hard
plastic containers from frozen juices.
Either it was given to me free, or I bought
a product, and that was the container!
SO IT'S ALL FREE!
IN FACT, I PAY
TO GET RID OF IT!
IT'S *GARBAGE*!
ONE OF THE VERY
FEW INDUSTRIAL
COMMODITIES
YOU CAN GET
DELIVERED
FOR FREE!
AND THEY CHARGE A
KING'S RANSOM TO
STEAL FROM YOU!
THAT'S what you
*really* want to
make things from!
The most delightful thing about
most of this plastic is that it
is THERMO-PLASTIC! When you
heat it up, it melts. When you
cool it down, it goes back to
being whatever it was before
you heated it up. You can do
this as many times as you like.
It doesn't ever "cook"
and become something else.
It's like ice, but it melts
at a much higher temperature!
That means that you can
TAKE YOUR HOUSEHOLD TRASH
AND MAKE SOMETHING USEFUL
OUT OF IT. SAVE GARBAGE!
SAVE GARBAGE COLLECTION COSTS!
MAKE SOMETHING USEFUL
FOR NO MATERIALS COST!
MAKE MINISUBS
FROM TRASH!
Ain't that convenient!
Now we've got a design,
a material, and a FREE
source for the material!
WAY COOL!
We're off to
a great start!
Next we need something
to melt our plastic in.
It's mostly complex carbon
cross-linked chains, and we
need to heat it hot enough
to make it melt, but not burn.
HOW ABOUT A WAFFLE IRON?
SUBS PANELS ARE BUILT
VERY SIMILAR TO WAFFLES.
Waffle irons heat soup made from
water and complex carbon cross-
linked chains intil they react
and produce a phase change.
BUT DON'T BURN THE CARBON!
That ought to be
somewhere in the
right ball park
for temperature!
And they make
groovy little
panels, very
much like SUBS!
Waffle irons cost
$5 to $8 at Goodwill,
so I got a whole mess
of them for about $30!
I now have an assortment of
waffle sizes and patterns.
One of my favorites is
about 4"x8", just the size
I want my MINISUBS panels!
Ain't that convenient!
So I fired up my waffle iron and
started melting my plastic trash!
===================
IT WORKS FANTASTIC!
===================
White milk jugs make a
very dense, hard white panel.
Thin shopping bags with handles
in different colors make wonderful
camouflage patterns. Black garbage
bags make slick looking black panels
that are very slightly flexible.
These are TOUGH panels. You can't
nearly break them by hand. I can
barely flex the black one enough to
see. I can't flex milk jugs at all.
They're harder than hell to smash
with a 28 ounce framing hammer!
And these are just plastic WAFFLES!
Judging crudely, the strength
is pretty comparable to wood!
Of course they are completely
color-fast and water-proof.
You can leave your plastic SUBS doll
house out in the dirt and weather.
If necessary, you can clean
it with soap and water ...
thru a pressure washer!
Just spray silicone lubricant
mold release on the iron and all
parts that liquid plastic touchs,
or your mold will glue shut when
it cools. The extra plastic that
oozes out you can cut or break off.
SUBS-design panels would be
much stronger than waffles,
which are designed to cook
fast and catch butter and
syrup, not to be structural.
Waffle irons seem to be
the perfect temperature
for bags and milk jugs,
but harder plastic bottles
don't melt well in them.
So now we have
a temperature
range too!
A waffle iron combines
both the heating element
and the molding pattern.
A common ordinary
electric skillet
will heat higher
and lower than a
waffle iron, and
is big enough for
a two-panel mold
that's about 8"x8".
There's your heat souce!
Under $10 at Goodwill!
It'll melt those harder plastics!
Or dial down for the softest ones!
This allows you to separate
the heating element from
the mold itself. Heat with
a cheap common *used* item!
And the heat disinfects any organic
crud left on the plastic, so you
don't have to worry about germs.
Now all kids can
MAKE THEIR OWN TOYS
out of garbage they
collect from neighbors!
As easy as waffles!
Ain't that convenient!
And learn how
real buildings
are built in
the process!
Ain't that convenient!
There is one area where
the 1:12 scale runs into
a problem. When you scale
a 1/2" bolt down to 1/24",
you're dealing with very
fine threads and tiny nuts
and washers. It doesn't work.
But of course, the other option,
of nailing the panels together,
scales down perfectly! Instead
of a 16 penny nail or duplex nail,
you fire a wire brad from your
finish nail gun to nail panels
together! Instead of a 3 foot
bar to tear them apart, you
use a screwdriver! You use a
long or short nail where you
would use long or short bolts
in a full-scale SUBS building.
Mom and Dad can borrow
the kids toys to design
grandma's new room, and
get a materials list too!
Stack the parts and count!
Ain't that convenient!
The mold for a standard panel
is very simple! The lower part
is an open box 4"x8"x1/2" deep.
The upper part, hinged to it,
has two boxes, about half as
big. The space between them
is filled with melted plastic
to form the sheet-on-frame
of a SUBS panel. One mold
would make two panels in
your typical frying pan.
Ain't that convenient!
The molds could be made
of aluminum, or of
whatever waffle irons
are made of. Or maybe
from some cheap ceramic
that starts plastic and
cures to a hard, durable
thermo-transmitter suitable
for a high-temmperature mold.
The molds are what
we do NOT have yet.
How would YOU do it?
Whoever makes the molds
will be at the top of
the SUBS food chain.
Until someone starts selling
machines that make the molds!
And someone starts making molds for
4'x8'x6" panels MADE FROM MILK JUGS!
They're hard and dense and tough as nails.
I guess they're STRONGER than wood.
If not, they're pretty damn close!
And they're waterproof,
and don't ever need paint!
And if you ever get tired
of them, you can melt them
down, and make something else!
That's my idea of a
really great product!
Use it indefinitely,
with no maintenance
or other costs, and
then melt it down,
and make something
completely new!
=====================
ALL FROM CRAP YOU GOT
FOR FREE AT THE DUMP!
=====================
THAT'S WHAT KILLS ME!
I'm *really* proud
of this one! I JUST
CAN'T STOP LAUGHING!
USED MILK JUGS
WOULD MAKE GREAT
FULL-SIZED PANELS!
Who shall be so bold
as to make a mold?
PHOTOS TO COME
but I have to
take them yet.
O
--- )
\
Bill Dur
DISTRIBUTION:
Newsgroups:
alt.ucp,alt.architecture,alt.architecture.alternative,alt.clearing.technology,
Reply to Blog: “blogical thought” = net-prophet.net/blog
PERMALINK: http://net-prophet.net/blog/?p=879
SUBS Home Page: http://net-prophet.net/subs