Subject: RE: [smof-politics] Thought for solving two housing crises, but is the cost too high?
From: "Myk-El Miller" (mykel@jmc.fen)
Reply-To: smof-politics@smofcon.fen
Date: 2014/2/14 14:35
To: undisclosed-recipients
>We're taking as much care as we can about contamination. All 'wavium is
>currently under the Institute's standard security protocols for the stuff,
>which given the League's attempts to screw with us during OGJ, is tight.
>We're running a mockup with something suitably visible first; Nez suggested
>acrylic paint, but we need to make sure it doesn't clog the sprayers first. It's
>all in the tech notes. Personally, I'm concerned about the catch barriers
>permeability and how the whole thing is going to react to the atmospherics
>of the Big Blue Marble. Isolated lab tests do not accurately mock Hibernian
>weather conditions.
I've taken to using mineral oil with coloring as a demonstration fluid when I show spraying techniques and hazards to my students, actually. It's a good handy way to show them how *bad* storebought spraying equipment can be for, ahem, overspray. I tried acrylic, but one has to be using it in paint spraying equipment designed for latex, and clean it out quick, and equipment for spraying paint tends to be even worse for overspray as regards 'wavium. The stuff gets *everywhere* and into *everything* when it's aerosolized like that.
As for the catch barriers, as long as you only leave them in place long enough to do their job, then quickly pack them up and clean them, as long as they're not permeable to liquids, they usually work out all right. But you do need to make sure they are quite tight, without any tears in them.
And it's always a crap shoot when it's mother nature involved. There's a reason why Jeph 'waved our cars in garages, and Starbug 1 in a large barn. It at least cut down on the wind. I'd recommend a *least* couple of additional 'layers' of catch barriers, one a distance from the other. But as Jeph noted, I'm a bit paranoid as it regards 'wavium. I've seen what happens when people get careless with the stuff, after all.
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"You know how parents tell you everything's going to fine, but you know they're lying to make you feel better? Everything's going to be fine." - The Doctor
From: "Myk-El Miller" (mykel@jmc.fen)
Reply-To: smof-politics@smofcon.fen
Date: 2014/2/14 14:35
To: undisclosed-recipients
>We're taking as much care as we can about contamination. All 'wavium is
>currently under the Institute's standard security protocols for the stuff,
>which given the League's attempts to screw with us during OGJ, is tight.
>We're running a mockup with something suitably visible first; Nez suggested
>acrylic paint, but we need to make sure it doesn't clog the sprayers first. It's
>all in the tech notes. Personally, I'm concerned about the catch barriers
>permeability and how the whole thing is going to react to the atmospherics
>of the Big Blue Marble. Isolated lab tests do not accurately mock Hibernian
>weather conditions.
I've taken to using mineral oil with coloring as a demonstration fluid when I show spraying techniques and hazards to my students, actually. It's a good handy way to show them how *bad* storebought spraying equipment can be for, ahem, overspray. I tried acrylic, but one has to be using it in paint spraying equipment designed for latex, and clean it out quick, and equipment for spraying paint tends to be even worse for overspray as regards 'wavium. The stuff gets *everywhere* and into *everything* when it's aerosolized like that.
As for the catch barriers, as long as you only leave them in place long enough to do their job, then quickly pack them up and clean them, as long as they're not permeable to liquids, they usually work out all right. But you do need to make sure they are quite tight, without any tears in them.
And it's always a crap shoot when it's mother nature involved. There's a reason why Jeph 'waved our cars in garages, and Starbug 1 in a large barn. It at least cut down on the wind. I'd recommend a *least* couple of additional 'layers' of catch barriers, one a distance from the other. But as Jeph noted, I'm a bit paranoid as it regards 'wavium. I've seen what happens when people get careless with the stuff, after all.
--
"You know how parents tell you everything's going to fine, but you know they're lying to make you feel better? Everything's going to be fine." - The Doctor