As you can see it used to have some plastic covering. The frame is held together with (sorta brittle) plastic pins but my main focus is how I’d re-cover the frame in plastic:

  • What sort of adhesives should I consider for outdoor metal-plastic bonding?

  • Is adhesive and soft (clear) plastic even a good idea?

  • Have any of you done something similar?

    • aebletrae [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      2 months ago

      There are about 40mil to 1mm, though, and I don’t think they’re talking about food wrap. But plastic greenhouse panes are about 5mm thick, so maybe that’s what is meant here.

    • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      3·
      2 months ago

      shit I dunno, it’s thick. I figured it was some nominal b.s. like with lumber where it’s totally not the thing, but people talk like it is. I would guess it’s like 1.5-2 mm actual. I don’t know what “mil” refers to, maybe some machine gauge?

      • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
        English
        6·
        2 months ago

        found an answer.

        This thickness is indicated as MIL (thousandth of an inch).

        I worked for a while in The Academy, so we flipped around units a lot depending on the audience. I just assumed this was one of the SI friendly units.

        what a dumb country. thousandths of an inch, what a useful meaurement! lmao