I have several self made hanging shelves in corners/other odd small areas. Created using some scrounged board from a work site, colored 550 cord and washers. Drill holes in the board just large enough to fit the cord through, knot cord at even lengths below a washer and arround a bead or piece of dowel…repeat several times to add shelves. secure to ceiling risers. Used bright color cord and painted the shelves in a diff color, say red cord and blue shelves for the boys room etc.
They actually look pretty cool and I get asked a lot where I bought them…Chuckle! I have only 2 actual cabinets in the kitchen, its sort of a huge walk through style. Im using two identical waist high book cases back to back as a sort of island, one side faces kitchen and I can store canned goods there, the other faces the dining/living area and I have strung a curtain on a rod to hid whatever I store there. I got wall mounted racks from Ikea and packages of hooks, all my pots, pans, utensils, anything that can be hung up is all there on the wall.
Also got racks to wall mount and have tons of stuff there stored in plain view, makes it easier to find for sure…lol…2 sets of hanging baskets, and I use a magnetic Knife rack that is mounted on the wall I have those door hanging racks like they sell to store vhs tapes on the back on most doors for storage and or used as a bookshelf in our bedroom. I found a REALLY neat unit at Walmart right before we moved here, Its door mounted, hangs off the top of the bathroom door, has 2 shelfs at the top and underneath a hanger bar and underneath that towel/clothes hooks. Got hubby to build small boxes basically, about 3 ft long 6 in deep approx 6-8 in wide to mount on the walls over both toilets, making a small storage compartment, and a shelf.
Once again, it’s up to the person. If you run the numbers, and try to factor in obscure costs like the extra fuel in a tow vehicle over what you would be driving if not for the boat trailer, and other associated costs, a slip in a marina might not be that expensive. On the other hand, if you’re concerned about re-sale value, and like the looks of a freshly waxed new boat, but don’t want to wash and polish it every weekend, you may not want to have your boat exposed to the elements.
Stock has risen 150% in the last 5 days to about $12.50 from a low of $4. Do you still think Microsoft would buy them up? I think they already have a 10% stake, tivo had borrowed money from lots of investors. AOL also. I don’t think Tivo’s patent will affect replay or dish and Microsoft. I seen the chairman of tivo on TV today he said it was more to protect their intellectual property. After all they don’t even make the hardware. And if replay uses different code for accomplishing the same end result that isn’t infringing. Like GM and Ford, they both make cars but all their patents are for specific designs that they use in their own model vehicles. Fords engine design is just a little different but they are both combustion engines. I think it will be the same thing here. The only thing Tivo could sue for was if replay started using a season pass feature, etc.
Green coffee can be stored certainly for one year under proper conditions and under more stringent conditions for even three years. Some of the cup characteristics will change with time and can get better or worse depending on their characteristics at the beginning and your personal preferences. The most important parameters to watch are the humidity and temperature in the storage room. Coffee beans are somewhat porous and it will absorb and lose moisture depending on the conditions outside.
I do believe for universality, I should hang the bikes by their wheels. I have seen one commercially available hanger that mounts on a wall. There is a hook which wraps through the wheel, and for stability there is some sort of a guide (joined to the hook) that constrains the wheel to keep the bike perpendicular to the wall. I don’t know how well this feature works with tires of different diameters and widths (the guide appeared non-adjustable). I wonder how much force is generated on the rim by this hanging method.
We used to have a home brew shop here in Los Alamo and another 35 miles away in Santa Fe. It was really nice to have those stores and the nice folks in them around, so I made a habit of buying most of my supplies from them, even though I could do ten or twenty percent better by mail order. Evidently, not enough other local brewers had the same policy, though, since both stores have now closed, and I’m in the same fix as you. Anyway, hops will keep for many months in the freezer in an oxygen-free environment.
In this case the original poster asked ‘what’s the hang-up with flywheels for home storage?’ Gene simply pointed out that it is a ‘non-trivial undertaking’ best not attempted by casual tinkerers for safety reasons. There is certainly a lot more that can be said about the subject, but his remarks are not inappropriate. Be careful now, some of the ‘wise guy’s in the news groups *are* professors of physics! Gene might not be ‘all warm and fuzzy’ but he’s not all ‘sour grapes’ either and serves as an effective foil to the unbounded (and generally unfounded) optimism of some of the other posters.
