We had an install last week of an agricultural type panel…Lexan/Polycarbonate extrusion. Like a green house covering.
Seems they padded the shipping crate with scraps about 14″ wide by 8′ long…smoked color with UV inhibitor..this stuff is 19mm thick.
I guess I have about 15 pcs. any good Ideas?
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solar collectors!!
In the garage on the work benches? Mortar boards? End table tops? Spray booth enclosures (hinge them together)? Got any pics?
Semper Fi
"To be young and a conservative, you have no heart"
"To be old and a liberal, you have no mind"
Winston Churchill
"Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem."
PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN, 1985
I can't post pics with this 'puter for some reason, but I can later on when I get told by the wife to vacate this chair and use the LT..LOL
Basically, the stuff is hollow channels...I can't for the life of me recall just what exactly it is called.
I may make a storm door insert or something along those lines, it is opaque enough to be a privacy type glazing. I also don't know what the R value is, but I'd guess, it is a good insulator.
Gimme a few hours to get some pics ....it is all laying oin the floor in the Living room...and I gotta come up with a plan b4 the DW gets back home.
Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
The secret to a long life is knowing when its time to go. M. Shocked
Built like oversized corrugated cardbord? Two flat faces and ribs separating them?
So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable Creature, since it enables one to find or make a Reason for everything one has a mind to do. --Benjamin Franklin
Yup. It is just like that.
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sorta like this.
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The secret to a long life is knowing when its time to go. M. Shocked
Duane
I built some doors with that same stuff as the window paines.
And I seen Norm build a greenhouse shed with it, the posibilites are endless.
Doug
Cool. That is a great Idea.
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The secret to a long life is knowing when its time to go. M. Shocked
Looks Good
What is the brand of the hardware you used on that door?
Simple barn door hardware from either Tractor Supply or someplace similar.
Thats the look the guy was going for........on the other side of the doors he had gone completly industrial. House is slab on grade and he also took up all the carpet and was staining his floors, looked cool if thats your thing! It's a look that seamed to be big in Austin Tx while I was there.
Doug
are they flat or corrugated?
corrugated?
There you go and ruin everything I mentioned :-) LOL, never thought of that!Semper Fi
"To be young and a conservative, you have no heart"
"To be old and a liberal, you have no mind"
Winston Churchill
"Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem."PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN, 1985
Both..LOL
picture a slew of 3/4 x3/4 sq. tubes, in a sheet form. Hollow.
They won't photo well.
Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
The secret to a long life is knowing when its time to go. M. Shocked
They use them for greenhouse walls and roofs could be good for starting garden plants outside early.
ANDYSZ2WHY DO I HAVE TO EXPLAIN TO FRIENDS AND FAMILY THAT BEING A SOLE PROPRIETOR IS A REAL JOB?
REMODELER/PUNCHOUT SPECIALIST
A greenhouse would be an awesome idea......Semper Fi
"To be young and a conservative, you have no heart"
"To be old and a liberal, you have no mind"
Winston Churchill
"Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem."PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN, 1985
fill'em with water and use for passive solar heating
bobl Volo, non valeo
Baloney detecter WFR
"But when you're a kibbutzer and have no responsibility to decide the facts and apply the law, you can reach any conclusion you want because it doesn't matter." SHG
Panels with 3/4" "cores?" I would cut them into lengths of about 7", glue them into blocks, and use them to hold tools like screwdrivers, nut drivers, files, etc.
Likewise, you can use them to sort your parts and small hardware. Close off the ends, then remove maybe 2" of the face at one end. Tipping the panel would cause all the parts to slide toward the 'opening,' where you could pick out a few at a time.
Finally, small pieces (two 'tubes' with the sides removed to make an "H" cross section) can be used as rails for panels that can slide into place.
Do like the rest of us packrats do....you stack it in the back yard behind the shed......then every year or so you move it somewhere else.
Smell them little flowers...play marbles with the kiddies...listen to them birdies....and don't forget to laugh at the pomposity of yourself.
......then every year or so you move it somewhere else.
And swear, each time, that if you don't use them within the next six months, you're going to toss them. (But of course, never do.)
J. D. REYNOLDSHome Improvements
all I have to tell Mrs Snort is that I paid for it...then I move it<G> "But to be honest some folks here have been pushing the envelope quite a bit with their unnecessary use if swear words. They just put a character in to replace a letter. But everyone knows what they're saying." Sancho
Have you been snooping around my yard ?
Cut them at an angle, drill a hole in the face of each channel, and make a giant pan flute. Call it art and then you can leave it in your yard.
Could make music with that and an air compresser or weed blower, I'm guessing.
Pete Duffy, Handyman
All good ideas, I imagine they will wind up out in the shed for awhile..LOL
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The secret to a long life is knowing when its time to go. M. Shocked
"All good ideas, I imagine they will wind up out in the shed for awhile..LOL "
If you gave them to Junkhound, he'd figure out a way to BUILD a shed out of them. :-)
it's like deja vu all over again.i bought 8 pieces 15'long for a solarium roof[that's attached greenhouse to the b.i.]the packing crate yielded four 8' pieces and enough #1 2x3 to frame two hall closets.the sheets are leaning against my shop wall waiting to be....
solar panels with a plumbing header and drain would be super,but how?
maze for dumb mice (to help them with their self esteem). Marble racing (for dumb Cub Scouts, or Cub Scouts without fathers to build their pinewood racers). Cold frame covers. Ever heard of Freecycle.org? Good place to unload potentially usable stuff.
So you are saying you have 15 14inch wide by 8 ft long panels composed of 3/4inch hollow extruded tubes which are made of 19mm thick walls of an opaque UV inhibitor smoke colored Lexan/polycarbonate which makes that thing pretty strong.
Dang man that's a 17 ft long wall or roof.
Good score. So what time you want me down there to pick it up? :o)
---Never show a fool a half finished job---Grampsy
I feel like a bunny in a hillbilly meadow at noon..........jjwalters
So far I think...accordian type room divider, cold frame lid, removeable window panels for the colder rooms of the house, or a porch roof.
That'lll keep me thinking busy for awhile.
Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
The secret to a long life is knowing when its time to go. M. Shocked