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| bdunham7:
I wonder how hard/expensive it would be to just take them off one-by-one and replace the glass? I'm guessing they could reclaim 90%+ of those for a fraction of the cost of new. |
| coppice:
If this was an exceptional event, damage is probably just something you have to live with. Hail rarely comes down in cricket balls sized lumps, so engineering to take such impacts probably just pushes up overall costs. A friend took a picture of a street in an affluent part of Beijing some years ago, when cricket ball sized hail fell. There were a lot of very expensive cars in a very sorry state. Hoods and trunks heavily dented. Most of the glass broken. The reasonable response to that is not to reinforce every car produced. |
| thm_w:
--- Quote from: bdunham7 on July 05, 2023, 08:54:34 pm ---I wonder how hard/expensive it would be to just take them off one-by-one and replace the glass? I'm guessing they could reclaim 90%+ of those for a fraction of the cost of new. --- End quote --- Its going to be a huge pain to remove the glass. Maybe with heat and a lot of manual processing... maybe, if it is a mild adhesive. Man I feel bad for these guys breathing in the glass: |
| NiHaoMike:
--- Quote from: bdunham7 on July 05, 2023, 08:54:34 pm ---I wonder how hard/expensive it would be to just take them off one-by-one and replace the glass? I'm guessing they could reclaim 90%+ of those for a fraction of the cost of new. --- End quote --- I would paint a layer of resin or other sealant over the ones that still work to seal them, then just keep using them. |
| vk6zgo:
--- Quote from: NiHaoMike on July 05, 2023, 01:14:20 pm --- --- Quote from: tautech on July 05, 2023, 07:46:01 am ---Here in NZ the tree huggers kick up such a fuss over any tree maintenance however where we are in a rural location cooking, eating and living by candlelight is from another long past century ! Some just can't understand how lives have been so dramatically improved by the provision of power so to not need to cut vast tracts of trees for firewood and cooking so the few that endanger power infrastructure would be of no loss to society when in fact their loss would be of more value to humanity. --- End quote --- They should rally against factory farming contributing to deforestation in Brazil. --- End quote --- They do! PS: Oops!, Sorry, I read it as farming in Brazil-----as in cutting down trees in great swathes to allow normal farming. The people who rally against factory farming are not worried so much about the environment, but about animal welfare. |
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