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Re: varnishing screen doors (was Re: AA Battery Hack)

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In alt.hackers, Kragen Javier Sitaker  <kragen@canonical.org> wrote:
> How did you keep the varnish from gluing the door to the four individual
> cup holders?  Did you only varnish the side of the door that was on top?

Oh, I let it dry overnight, then flipped and did the over side. Three
day project, with two dry overnight steps.

> I suppose the extreme version of marine spar varnish would be to use
> fiberglass-laminating epoxy, and maybe fiberglass sheets too.  But maybe
> you live in a place where firefighters being able to break down your
> door improves your survival prospects more than burglars being able to
> break down your door harms them...

There's no latch on the door, it is held shut with a spring. Also, this
is the door to the back yard and I live in a place where there is no
easy route to the back yard from the street. I've never worked with
fiberglass, I do know that you can apply it over wood and still be able
to see the grain, like with spar varnish. Besides having never used
fiberglass, I also can just walk a couple of blocks and buy spar
varnish, but I'd have to hunt around to find fiberglass supplies.

ObHack:
I have a link shortcut maker I created that uses a DNS label as the
shortcut name, implemented with wildcard DNS. I've also configured my
browser to only suggest sites that have been bookmarked when I type in
the URL bar. I've come to find that I can use the combination of
creating a shortcut with bookmarking that shortcut to get around having
many sites I want to visit start with the same letters. In my case, I
have a bunch of "a" sites with "ar" being a big subgroup. So, for
example, I can create a shortcut dropping the "a" when it is used as an
article, and create shortcuts with leading letters otherwise. The "ark"
archive I use turned in "dark". And for some I just use new words, not
in original URL at all, eg "pave" takes me to a reference page, using
a QWERTY key layout shift for "g" to "v".

Elijah
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has heard of Dvorak key layouts leading to vulgarity with "n" to "s" swaps

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          varnishing screen doors (was Re: AA Battery Hack) Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen@canonical.org> - 2026-08-30 12:33 -0300
            Re: varnishing screen doors (was Re: AA Battery Hack) Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2026-08-30 22:01 +0000

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