• h0rnman@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I know this is a meme /c, but for real, I bought this exact same product a while back. If this is your photo, just be careful about what you put on it. Mine lasted 2 months with a grape vine on it before it collapsed.

    Source: Arch user

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      11 months ago

      I can’t think of a more appropriate time for

      You had one job…

      When a grape trellis collapses due to the weight of… checks notes grapes.

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        I’m really not sure how much of this thread is a joke. Wouldn’t you just use solid slats of wood?

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          Lol. The wife wanted something decorative and liked how it looked. Caveat Emptor, and all that I suppose. I knew I was buying from a less-than-quality source

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          One definitely should use solid structures, metal or wooden. The damned thing cost ~10$ and I didn’t have time to build a proper support structure at the moment. I meant to use it only as a temporary solution, which I forgot when everything was fine.

          The design of the arch itself wasn’t the problem. The interconnecting pipes were only 1-2mm thick, so there was no way it could possibly support the weight of a flourishing grape vine.

          It was marketed as a “rose arch”. I guess it could’ve handled this purpose without any problems.

          Buy wrong stuff, suffer the consequences.

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        Just wanted to say we have one in our yard that has been there for almost 20-years. Previous owner left it to rot. I moved it close to some wild hops and they are covering it completely after two years. Still standing!

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        It is straight. There’s just a big ol mass somewhere between the paper and us causing some gravitational lensing.

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      Should be piss easy if you followed the instructions, but people will just start connecting parts because “how hard can it be”. Then they’ll complain about how it’s broken and how the instructions were bad lol.

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      11 months ago

      I was thinking the same thing and assumed it was a serious post until I looked at the community name.

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        They’re not. A is the starting piece on both sides. B is the end piece. C and D are the pieces between a and B.

        The order for each side would be acccddddcccb.

        E is the 11 bars that hold the two sides together.

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    If you have extra parts when you’re done that’s a compiler error, check your module dependencies.

    If you’re missing parts, check the forums, but this looks like a new system; that wifi chipset might be unsupported.

    Metric? Somebody set the region settings wrong!

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      Metric? Somebody set the region settings wrong!

      That’s a weird way to spell “correctly”

      I’m a metric user btw

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    Makes sense to me.

    My only concern is that pipe c is shown as having two different shapes: straight and slightly curved.

    Based on the fact that the design requires that a and b be different, there would undoubtedly be the same situation for the four slightly curved c pipes. That is, there would need to be two “c2” pipes and two “c3” pipes in the set rather than just four more of the same c pipe.

    That makes me think the diagram at the bottom was made before a decision to cut costs and/or simplify. Four regular c pipes will undoubtedly be cheaper and logistically simpler to manage for both shipping and user construction than having those two extra pipe types.

    It was, of course, relabelled to match the supplied parts, but the hints of the original design still remain.

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    I know the straight pipes move data between processes and curved pipes go to or from files depending on direction, but what do bolts do?