restoring a DC9 restroom... at home

RST Engineering wrote:

A 15" medicine cabinet was designed to fit between standard 2x4 studs on
16"
centers. The blades dropped into the inter-wall space created by those
2x4s. A quick calculation for a medicine cabinet at 5' high, 15" wide,
3.5"
deep shows a space of some 3150 cubic inches. Assuming the blades were
about 1" x 2" x 0.005, this gives a blade volume of.01 cubic inches. You
could drop 315,000 blades into the slot before the space filled up. If
you changed blades every other day, you had a little over 1700 years of
capacity.

Jim



Alas only if they fell neatly into place!
John

"RST Engineering" wrote in message
...
A 15" medicine cabinet was designed to fit between standard 2x4 studs on
16" centers. The blades dropped into the inter-wall space created by those
2x4s. A quick calculation for a medicine cabinet at 5' high, 15" wide,
3.5" deep shows a space of some 3150 cubic inches. Assuming the blades
were about 1" x 2" x 0.005, this gives a blade volume of.01 cubic inches.
You could drop 315,000 blades into the slot before the space filled up. If
you changed blades every other day, you had a little over 1700 years of
capacity.

Good explanation but you forgot to factor in corrosion of those blades. By
the time you reach 1700 years, the first 1200 years of blades would have
corroded to almost nothing. This would give at least another 500-600 worth
of storage. You can calculate out the rest....


--
The Raven
http://www.80scartoons.co.uk/batfinkquote.mp3
** Now I will bring chaos to the world!

The Raven wrote:
"RST Engineering" wrote in message
...

A 15" medicine cabinet was designed to fit between standard 2x4 studs on
16" centers. The blades dropped into the inter-wall space created by those
2x4s. A quick calculation for a medicine cabinet at 5' high, 15" wide,
3.5" deep shows a space of some 3150 cubic inches. Assuming the blades
were about 1" x 2" x 0.005, this gives a blade volume of.01 cubic inches.
You could drop 315,000 blades into the slot before the space filled up. If
you changed blades every other day, you had a little over 1700 years of
capacity.


Good explanation but you forgot to factor in corrosion of those blades. By
the time you reach 1700 years, the first 1200 years of blades would have
corroded to almost nothing. This would give at least another 500-600 worth
of storage. You can calculate out the rest....

Back in the days of carbon steel razor blades, corrosion would reduce the
blades to dust (dust that takes up more room than the uncorroded blade
itself, BTW).

But today's double edged safety razor blade is made from a form of stainless steel, and
doesn't rust.

-Chuck

The Raven wrote:

"RST Engineering" wrote in message
...

A 15" medicine cabinet was designed to fit between standard 2x4 studs on
16" centers. The blades dropped into the inter-wall space created by those
2x4s. A quick calculation for a medicine cabinet at 5' high, 15" wide,
3.5" deep shows a space of some 3150 cubic inches. Assuming the blades
were about 1" x 2" x 0.005, this gives a blade volume of.01 cubic inches.
You could drop 315,000 blades into the slot before the space filled up. If
you changed blades every other day, you had a little over 1700 years of
capacity.


Good explanation but you forgot to factor in corrosion of those blades. By
the time you reach 1700 years, the first 1200 years of blades would have
corroded to almost nothing. This would give at least another 500-600 worth
of storage. You can calculate out the rest....



Except that iron oxide takes up even more space than the iron ....


Matt

"The Raven" wrote:

Good explanation but you forgot to factor in corrosion of those blades. By
the time you reach 1700 years, the first 1200 years of blades would have
corroded to almost nothing. This would give at least another 500-600 worth
of storage.

Umm.. I don't think so. Inside the wall (as opposed to exposed to
the elements) there is nothing carrying the corroded material away.
It doesn't simply evaporate.

D.
--
Touch-twice life. Eat. Drink. Laugh.

-Resolved: To be more temperate in my postings.
Oct 5th, 2004 JDL

A 15" medicine cabinet was designed to fit between standard 2x4 studs on 16"
centers. The blades dropped into the inter-wall space created by those

2x4s. A quick calculation for a medicine cabinet at 5' high, 15" wide,
3.5"
deep shows a space of some 3150 cubic inches. Assuming the blades
were
about 1" x 2" x 0.005, this gives a blade volume of.01 cubic inches.
You
could drop 315,000 blades into the slot before the space filled up. If
you
changed blades every other day, you had a little over 1700 years of
capacity.

That's assuming that they all fall flat and ended up end to end down at
the bottom of the space right?

"Flyingmonk" wrote in message

A quick calculation for a medicine cabinet at 5' high, 15" wide, 3.5"
deep shows a space of some 3150 cubic inches. Assuming the blades
were about 1" x 2" x 0.005, this gives a blade volume of.01 cubic inches.
You could drop 315,000 blades into the slot before the space filled up.
If
you changed blades every other day, you had a little over 1700 years of
capacity.


It's also just shy of 900 lbs. Which would give out first? Cubic capacity
or the structure of the wall?
Maybe its just as well that nobody's fixed for blades any more!

Cheers
CJ Adams
Arte et Marte

"Flyingmonk" wrote in message
ups.com...
A 15" medicine cabinet was designed to fit between standard 2x4 studs on
16"
centers. The blades dropped into the inter-wall space created by those

2x4s. A quick calculation for a medicine cabinet at 5' high, 15" wide,
3.5"
deep shows a space of some 3150 cubic inches. Assuming the blades
were
about 1" x 2" x 0.005, this gives a blade volume of.01 cubic inches.
You
could drop 315,000 blades into the slot before the space filled up. If
you
changed blades every other day, you had a little over 1700 years of
capacity.

That's assuming that they all fall flat and ended up end to end down at
the bottom of the space right?

Or left (depending on your viewpoint).
But, the perfect razor alignment is due to the earth shake.

A quick calculation

you're hired. Now, second problem that's giving me nightmares....
How many "Sanitary Napkins" am I required to have in there?

you're hired. Now, second problem that's giving me nightmares....
How many "Sanitary Napkins" am I required to have in there?


How many do you use?