Near disaster and questions on finds

From: Ward Donald Griffiths III <gram_at_cnct.com>
Date: Sat Aug 1 03:43:25 1998

Max Eskin wrote:
>
> The experience I've had was in the apartment where I live, where it
> is best to make stuff as opposed to buying it because it is difficult
> to fit storebought things as efficiently. And it probably looks
> better. Plywood is probably not the best shelving material; I don't
> know much about this stuff, but wouldn't solid wood be stronger?

Plywood outlasts damned near anything else in a strong quake, as it
is reasonably flexible and has no specific direction to break. Worse
is solid lumber, worse twice is prestwood (which will break in any
convenient [to the quake] direction). But adequately thick plywood
isn't cheap and it really sucks _except_ for equipment rack sized
shelving -- bookshelves are a whole nother concept, though I have far
more of them than shelves for computer gear.

-- 
Ward Griffiths <mailto:gram_at_cnct.com> <http://www.cnct.com/home/gram/>
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
				Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_
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