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:) Okay. I've had a few beers and my mind Is racing a bit anyway, because I simply have a load on. But, yet another 'problem' has popped into my head. Thought I'd just ask. Right now. It's an engineering / maths sort of thing, I guess?

I have a small fridge. 18" square, nominally. I want a stand for it. Top of fridge can be no more than 43". Floor it's all to stand on slopes downwards toward the back. Even I'm dimly aware that there'll be some equation, to take in the X + Y x Z = F?!* factor.

  I'm just, as ever, thinking ahead. Get this Dog Cage built. Make the Indoor Turtle Enclosure. Buy A Welder .... Surely this would be a great little project to cut my teeth on. Once I feel competent at welding random bits of steel together?

What might be the formula for figuring those legs then, please?

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Can just see people getting a mortgage from Katchum ? Cheers, D.

I remember a builder mate in Wales telling me about how they used to build big chappels or Churches etc. A wooden frame in the middle with a water barrel and a pipe to each corner of the building

I think Pythagoras theorem is what you're looking for.  That's upside down for you of course but 'b' being the length you want to know, right? So solving for 'b' means you have to calculate

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I think Pythagoras theorem is what you're looking for. 

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That's upside down for you of course but 'b' being the length you want to know, right? So solving for 'b' means you have to calculate the square root of the difference between 'a' squared and 'c' squared.

 

That's the technical answer. The right answer though, is Balaur's.

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11 hours ago, Born Hunter said:

I think Pythagoras theorem is what you're looking for. 

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That's upside down for you of course but 'b' being the length you want to know, right? So solving for 'b' means you have to calculate the square root of the difference between 'a' squared and 'c' squared.

 

That's the technical answer. The right answer though, is Balaur's.

Use that nearly every day in my work life, makes life a lot easier knowing a bit of maths

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1 hour ago, baker boy said:

Its when I see stuff like that I realise how fckn thick I am, might as well be chinese

The 3 4 5 rule..

Piss easy to make from some wood.and handy if you are building a wooden shed.block shed.or building shuttering for a concrete slab..or any other thing where you want to be certain that an angle is 90 degrees..

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24 minutes ago, king said:

The 3 4 5 rule..

Piss easy to make from some wood.and handy if you are building a wooden shed.block shed.or building shuttering for a concrete slab..or any other thing where you want to be certain that an angle is 90 degrees..

pythagorean_triple_345.jpg.85e2e072189d1ecadac07910bf5cc9e9.jpg

As easy as using a square?

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