From naptimeatv at msn.com  Tue Apr  1 11:26:09 2008
From: naptimeatv at msn.com (Robert Vance)
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 15:26:09 -0400
Subject: [Domesteading 00304] Re: Fw: books
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Sal, Is the "hexadome" company still in existance? I bought the plans and wood angles to construct a hexadome garage for our dome (http://homepage.gallaudet.edu/janet.vance<http://homepage.gallaudet.edu/janet.vance>) but 'still' haven't started it! I also understand that there was an incorrect angle in the plans - as told to me by someone who built one, discovered it and corrected it!

BobVance!
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Sal Cerda<mailto:sal.cerda at rocketmail.com> 
  To: A forum for the discussion of aspects of independent,off-the-grid living<mailto:domesteading at sculptors.com> 
  Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 9:21 AM
  Subject: [Domesteading 00301] Re: Fw: books


  I did notice in one photo in Dick's web pages that the vertexes in a metal randome had a decidedly hexagonal-looking arrangement.
  This is course opens the possibility to discuss things like virtual or implied vertexes, composite struts etc.  The hexpent domes, while being composed of flat faces, have implied struts that are just not connected.

  Stephen Miller <triorbtl at sover.net<mailto:triorbtl at sover.net>> wrote: Randome units are made like the vertex pieces I designed for my  
  plydomes 18 years ago. But the plydome itself is completely different  
  from a randome. The randome is an assemblage of vertexes. The plydome  
  itself has none but the ones added after the sheets are put together.
  .
  On Mar 25, 2008, at 2:43 PM, rowley wrote:

  >
  > Sal opined:
  >
  >>  a slide rules? Oh.  Ouch. This punishment is making my brain mush.
  >
  > Once, up in the Great White North, I was given the task of  
  > measuring out an acre. Procrastinator that I am, I had only
  > finished 5 and a half yards when the supervisor came mushing up on  
  > his dog sled to check on me. He said, "Did you
  > do your acre? " ...to which I replied, "No, but I did a rod."
  >
  >
  >>  On a more serious note, has anyone constructed a house using the  
  >> randome?
  >>  I've seen the models, but have no idea how strong the resultant  
  >> dome might
  >>  be.
  >
  > Stephen Miller's house(s) might arguably qualify as randomes  
  > (though he might protest that they are anything but
  > random).
  >
  > ^~    ~   ~   ~   ~   ~   ~   ~   ~   ~   ~   ~   ~   ~   ~   ~
  > Oo
  > _      www.looknfeel.com<http://www.looknfeel.com/>   www.flickr.com/photos/looknfeel/<http://www.flickr.com/photos/looknfeel/>
  >
  >
  >>  -------Original Message-------
  >>  From: Sal Cerda 
  >>  Subject: Re: [Domesteading 00289] Re: Fw: books
  >>  Sent: 2008-03-25 12:10
  >>
  >>>
  >>
  >>
  >>>  I've always found slide rules sort of counter-Inuitive, myself.  
  >>> But that's
  >>>  just  me. Perhaps in a slippery medium like ice,  a slide rules?
  >>
  >>  a slide rules? Oh.  Ouch. This punishment is making my brain mush.
  >>  :-)
  >>
  >>  On a more serious note, has anyone constructed a house using the  
  >> randome?
  >>  I've seen the models, but have no idea how strong the resultant  
  >> dome might
  >>  be.

  Stephen Miller
  triorbtl at sover.net<mailto:triorbtl at sover.net>
  Formactive
  http://www.sover.net/!triorbtl/<http://www.sover.net/!triorbtl/>




         
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