Chainmail provides little to no protection against impact damage. As we saw in Fellowship, evil beings who attack heroes in bed use slashing attacks with broadswords or similar weapons. While it might prevent cuts, it’s basically like being beaten with an iron rod that will break bones and rupture organs. It is unsuitable as armor. That’s leaving aside weapons like maces, hammers, and clubs, or a Seal Team Six scenario.
It’s aluminum. Or aluminium, if you’re that kind of person. This is basically a blanket designed by Jony Ive. It doesn’t warm. It doesn’t protect. But it’s thin and lightweight. Which is the opposite of what you want in a weighted blanket.
You can buy weighted blankets that come in a variety of weights and warmth characteristics for a fraction of the time investment used to make this. The money you save could be used to buy a home security system that includes a minefield or electric fence. If you’re impressed by what a claymore sword can do to an orc, wait until you see what a claymore mine can do.
I know #1 is a joke but for everyone else in history that's why people wore the aketon, or gambeson or padded/quilted tunic under mail. Provided impact protection and made mail more comfortable!
And the combo of padding + rings was more effective against cutting and blunt weapons than either on their own! And it was easy to maintain, repair, and the mail could be transferred from person to person with some addition or subtraction of rings.
Claymore mines are terrifying. Most commonly, though, they are used in large open areas and may be problematic if your home is not rural.
Claymores fire steel balls at a wide 60 degree angle. It's stated that they are guaranteed a kill at 50 meters but can still be dangerous out past 150 meters.
While claymores are often depicted as being laser or tripwire activated, they are most often activated using a clacker detonator held by an operator. They can be rigged to detonate via both electrical and mechanical means, so they can potentially be activated by a variety of methods.
Literally anything you can DIY yourself can be bought at a lower dollar and/or time cost. That's not why people make things.
There are many reasons why people make things, but generally speaking it's because you can make exactly what you want, in terms of size, material and design.
It's fun, interesting, you learn stuff, and you get the joy of doing. This guy didn't want an off the shelf weighted blanket, even if it is cheaper/easier to get/whatever.
Sometimes, when you make things, they don't work. Or you realise that you made the wrong thing, or made it the wrong way. But that's when you get the buzz of knowing that you learned something, and the excitement of planning how to do it better.
Knitting takes a long time and the yarn usually costs more than a machine made version would. But I have friends who still have beanies and scarves that I made them 10 years ago when I was learning to knit. Why? Because they know that I made it for them, which gives them feels.
Huh, my roommate makes chainmail and I've never had this issue. Maybe it's a crafting quality issue, and he's just really good at keeping the ends together?
It’s used as electrodes for TIG welding torches. It was originally specified for aerospace and nuclear welding jobs because it’s really durable and handles heat well. And then it became popular everywhere else for the same reasons.
Now it’s supposed to be used less, but a lot of guys still like it for its consistency. If you don’t grind it to sharpen it it’s pretty safe to handle. So you can get pre ground electrodes for high end welding work.
I'll say this for the thick girls, they're cool on the outside and don't bitch about freezing. Meanwhile, my 95lb. wife, permanently frozen and shedding heat like a hummingbird.
First thing in the morning, sweating my ass off, legs glued together...
Well, fat is insulant, so it helps to keep the heat energy inside the body. Fat, therefore, also provides some protection against cold. On the other hand, if you live in areas with higher ambient temperature, it is more comfortable to be able to exhaust that heat, instead of storing it.
And I meant, that as fat has insulating properties, the lack of fat, ergo "tiny body" does not have insulating properties. Thus, a tiny body exhausts more heat, and therefore 1) feel cold more easily and 2) heats the surrounding area.
So yes, tiny bodytype tends to exhaust heat under a blanket.
The brittlenes apparently depends on the form it takes (polycrystalline or single-crystalline). And while there are some radioactive isotopes of tungsten most of them are synthetic and only made in a lab. The vast majority of the tungsten found on earth is stable.
No. The Latin ending -ium designates that something comes from a place. Like, magnesium was originally found in Magnesia. Aluminia is not a place. It's name is derived from the Latin word 'alumen' for aluminum oxide.
This is what happens when you let people read the Bible in English.
I don’t think so, but our ideas of gender are individual- maybe that makes the perfect man for this guy and the perfect woman is decisive and well informed.
Because of my dad and husband, I have an association between manliness and home cooking, which is probably not super common, but it’s still definitely there in my head.
I think maybe we're overthinking it. Maybe BeefyGorilla just really likes chainmail, and it makes him feel masculine, which feels good to him. And that's okay.
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I know #1 is a joke but for everyone else in history that's why people wore the aketon, or gambeson or padded/quilted tunic under mail. Provided impact protection and made mail more comfortable!
And the combo of padding + rings was more effective against cutting and blunt weapons than either on their own! And it was easy to maintain, repair, and the mail could be transferred from person to person with some addition or subtraction of rings.
Just all around quality protection.
And heavy, which it also is.
Is this a copypasta?
No, man. My comments are like jazz.
You like them?
Nobody likes jazz.
You're right there. I don't like jazz. I LOVE jazz!
scats away
Come back here and give me your favorite album!
You perv!
This dude gets a pass from me with his bull because of the Watership Down reference. But barely.
I think OP is just passionate about this thing. 🤷🏻♂️
You can make it one, don't let your dreams be dreams
Claymore mines are terrifying. Most commonly, though, they are used in large open areas and may be problematic if your home is not rural.
Claymores fire steel balls at a wide 60 degree angle. It's stated that they are guaranteed a kill at 50 meters but can still be dangerous out past 150 meters.
While claymores are often depicted as being laser or tripwire activated, they are most often activated using a clacker detonator held by an operator. They can be rigged to detonate via both electrical and mechanical means, so they can potentially be activated by a variety of methods.
I have an Army background (from a long fucking time ago). I was always amused by “Front Towards Enemy,” and we were trained to click three times.
I still think the joke works though.
LOTR is fantasy though
Source?
Source
Literally anything you can DIY yourself can be bought at a lower dollar and/or time cost. That's not why people make things.
There are many reasons why people make things, but generally speaking it's because you can make exactly what you want, in terms of size, material and design.
It's fun, interesting, you learn stuff, and you get the joy of doing. This guy didn't want an off the shelf weighted blanket, even if it is cheaper/easier to get/whatever.
Sometimes, when you make things, they don't work. Or you realise that you made the wrong thing, or made it the wrong way. But that's when you get the buzz of knowing that you learned something, and the excitement of planning how to do it better.
Knitting takes a long time and the yarn usually costs more than a machine made version would. But I have friends who still have beanies and scarves that I made them 10 years ago when I was learning to knit. Why? Because they know that I made it for them, which gives them feels.
One benefit of a chainmail blanket like this though is easy even distribution of the weight.
Too bad aluminum will oxides and cause black stains on the bed sheets
Replace bed sheets with aluminum.
Replacement bed sheets in question
I can hear this picture, and it does not sound conducive to a good night's sleep.
Just blacken the aluminum.
And the sheets.
So you replace this with aluminum?
It’s a Faraday blanket!
This will protect me from the harmful Covid causing 5g rays I've heard so much about.
Pure diamond chainmail for if you really wanna be cold. 10x more effective at heat transfer than copper
I need a pure diamond heatsink contact surface
You may well get one in your lifetime. CVD technology is becoming increasingly practical, and future improvements in computing may depend on it.
Every time I've messed with chain mail it's always felt like it's ripping out my body hair. This looks like torture.
This is why chainmail is always used with a liner. I imagine the guy in the posts uses a sheet or a thin blanket beneath
This is what it means to be a man.
A completely hairless man.
Well, you're not supposed to wear it against bare skin. For suits of armor they wore padded jackets underneath the chainmail.
coil cut cosplay 'chainmail' is NOTHING like actual combat chainmail.
That's because the ends aren't welded and microgaps can snag everything.
If you can't braise aluminum (and most people can't) then you can use little dots of JBweld in the gaps. Time consuming but 100x more comfortable.
Source: I used to be a Royal Chessman (Rook)
Huh, my roommate makes chainmail and I've never had this issue. Maybe it's a crafting quality issue, and he's just really good at keeping the ends together?
Over time even good annealed coiled chain will separate, and when you have to knit thousands of links sometimes you get sloppy.
Accidental epilator.
I think riveting the rings helps with that but it makes it way way harder.
hear me out: tungsten chainmail blanket
Depleted uranium blanket. My sleep paralysis demon is a plutonium sphere.
Even though the radioactivity would be negligible, it would still be toxic as a heavy metal. Tungsten is definitely the way to go here.
Unless it’s thoriated tungsten anyway.
Thorium->Radium->Radon->Polonium->Lead (I think?)
Why would tungsten be thoriated? Is it an impurity which is hard to remove, or is it intentionally added for some specific purpose?
It’s used as electrodes for TIG welding torches. It was originally specified for aerospace and nuclear welding jobs because it’s really durable and handles heat well. And then it became popular everywhere else for the same reasons.
Now it’s supposed to be used less, but a lot of guys still like it for its consistency. If you don’t grind it to sharpen it it’s pretty safe to handle. So you can get pre ground electrodes for high end welding work.
Cool, TIL! How much is generally added? Is it a trace amount or a substantial fraction?
Looks like only 1-2% by weight.
Magnesium chainmail if you're sleeping on the surface of the sun or next to my tiny girlfriend
I'll say this for the thick girls, they're cool on the outside and don't bitch about freezing. Meanwhile, my 95lb. wife, permanently frozen and shedding heat like a hummingbird.
First thing in the morning, sweating my ass off, legs glued together...
"Babe! Let me embrace you!"
"Get OFF! pant, pant, pant
Is this a feature of small women? My wife puts off heat like an oil furnace under the covers.
Well, fat is insulant, so it helps to keep the heat energy inside the body. Fat, therefore, also provides some protection against cold. On the other hand, if you live in areas with higher ambient temperature, it is more comfortable to be able to exhaust that heat, instead of storing it.
So, yes, it is a feature?
I meant small women, not fat ones. The original comment was "my tiny girlfriend".
And I meant, that as fat has insulating properties, the lack of fat, ergo "tiny body" does not have insulating properties. Thus, a tiny body exhausts more heat, and therefore 1) feel cold more easily and 2) heats the surrounding area.
So yes, tiny bodytype tends to exhaust heat under a blanket.
Gotcha. My experience indicates you're right! It's like sleeping with a space heater.
Haters will say it's too hard to machine
That wouldn't have the same heat transferring capacity, but it would be heavier.
Could even be a heated blanket that glows.
Isn't tungsten kind of brittle? And radioactive?
The brittlenes apparently depends on the form it takes (polycrystalline or single-crystalline). And while there are some radioactive isotopes of tungsten most of them are synthetic and only made in a lab. The vast majority of the tungsten found on earth is stable.
Thank you for spelling aluminium correctly.
They were playing both sides
No. The Latin ending -ium designates that something comes from a place. Like, magnesium was originally found in Magnesia. Aluminia is not a place. It's name is derived from the Latin word 'alumen' for aluminum oxide.
This is what happens when you let people read the Bible in English.
The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) adopted aluminium as the standard international name for the element.
It's the aluminimum I could do
In America we say almuilum
In the original book it was written as aluminum, the British publisher, got it wrong and the country has been saying it wrong ever since.
If by country you mean the USA (and its northern colony). Literally everyone else in every language that matters spells it aluminium.
Also, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) adopted aluminium as the standard international name for the element.
Well, not only men can be on the spectrum!
Also protects you from random stabbings at 4 am
Hungry cats hate this WEIRD trick
what's the difference between a weird truck and a normal truck?
A typo
Only if you wake up, otherwise a coup de grace automatically crits regardless of AC.
He is now prepared for the 3am eldenring boss.
I can't judge. I do weird/benign shit like this too. I might even enjoy this if given the opportunity to try it.
Found Bennett from Commando.
Maybe thats him?
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nice work, but the guys got some pretty stupid ideas on what 'a man' is
pursues his own interest, even if it seems weird to others.
brings an idea he cares about from germ to product, even though it’s a lot of work
It’s not so bad!
Yes, but are those two points gender specific?
I don’t think so, but our ideas of gender are individual- maybe that makes the perfect man for this guy and the perfect woman is decisive and well informed.
Because of my dad and husband, I have an association between manliness and home cooking, which is probably not super common, but it’s still definitely there in my head.
What is a man?
A miserable little pile of secrets
But enough talk. Have at you!
apparently; a human who likes being weighted down with chainmail
Unless he floats, in which case he’s a witch
Given the chance to be weighted down with chainmail, do you feel like most men would enjoy or not enjoy it?
Circular reasoning. See above. A man is defined by those beings who like being weighted down with chain mail.
Okay, hear me out:
Given the chance to be weighted down by another man...
Instructions unclear.
That horse is a pervert!
i guess i would ask why only men would enjoy it, and, ya know, not all humans. why even bring gender it to it? its silly
like the person who brings a chicken to a knife fight. i guess its technically possible, but why would ya?
I think maybe we're overthinking it. Maybe BeefyGorilla just really likes chainmail, and it makes him feel masculine, which feels good to him. And that's okay.
I think this was his intent, especially because it looks like beefygorilla was commenting on someone else’s post
I can agree with this definition
What has he got?
I've done something similar with aluminum fence wire. It's strangely very satisfying to hold.
Can order plox
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Fuck Chuck
That would absolutely rip out body hairs
This is like... Super Saiyan 3 autism
It looks so good that it's not Renaissance fair.
Aren't weighted blankets most used by autistic people?
I think they are mostly used by people who feel more comfortable using a weighted blanket.
Fucking checkmate