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Comment Re: Let me guess the name of the line (Score 1) 95

Just be careful when assembling particleboard furniture with gorilla glue (aka polyurethane glue) ... it will NEVER come apart. You will need to smash the particleboard itself if you ever want to break it down as the glue is far stronger than the wood.

Indeed. polyurethane glue is just for a second lease on life. As with most wood glues it is stronger than the particle board.

What this means is...if you build it and it does't sit perfectly flat while the glue cures then your furniture will forever be wonky and crooked. I'm careful when I build and have ikea furniture that's lasted close to a decade through 5 or 6 moves without anything coming loose.

Good point. Having said that, I haven't had an IKEA thing being wonky. Even those given a second lease on life. May be just luck, may be that I take my time when assembling them.

Oh, and good luck if get it on your hands of clothes *sigh*

Hands: it forms a hard coating on your skin. That coating will come off because it isn't as flexible as your skin. You'll be shedding it for a day or two.
Washing doesn't help. Anything I know of that dissolves it dissolves your skin even faster.
Clothes: Never use glue with nice clothes on. Unless it's water dissoluble glue.

Comment Re:Nope (Score 1) 235

I agree. Does nobody remember what those indestructible Nokia dumbphones were made from? High quality plastic all the way and you had to place it on the side to be able to destroy it by driving over it with a tractor.

It's really interesting how quality feel and real quality mismatch. Bendy plastic absorbs drops way better then solid stainless steel. Steel mostly transfers the energy to the screen, which cracks. Or it deforms permanently. Properly designed plastic pops off and can then be popped back.

Comment Re:Not entirely new... (Score 1) 110

Step 1. Stream audio to left earbud with Bluetooth.
Step 2. Stream audio from left to right earbud with this technology.
Step 3. Mass production.
Step 4. Market.
Step 5. Sell
Step 6. Profit.

I don't know why they just make a new sub protocol under Bluetooth that supports two single channel audio connections. This may be because I don't know much about the details of Bluetooth

Comment Re: Let me guess the name of the line (Score 2) 95

You get what you pay for with IKEA. In fact, if you compare their stuff to similarly priced stuff you get a lot more than you pay for.

You can buy real wood furniture from them and it lasts far longer. It's not even that much more expensive. Especially if you cheat and glue the pieces in addition to screwing them together with the included stuff. The main disadvantage to gluing is that you can't take it apart to move it but you can't do that too often anyway.

Old IKEA furniture can often have a new lease on life if you take it apart and glue it back together with a polyurethane based glue (often called filling glue). Cheap and relatively easy. Note: take lots of pictures while taking it apart. Those pictures in reverse are your manual (since the original manual is probably lost).

Comment Re:Plastic, huh? (Score 2) 131

Most plastics (including food grade) are remarkably resilient to acid.
Now metal, that is a different story. Wise people don't put acidic foodstufs in metal. Not even stainless steel (not SS316(L), not Hasteloy, not Duplex nothing).

I believe the biggest difference between glass bottles of honey and plastic bottles is that much of the stuff in plastic bottles is sugarwater with some flavor additives. Glass bottles are often considered premium so the manufacturers don't do that.
The "fake" honey doesn't include all the flavor chemicals that real honey does, just like candy cherries do not have the same flavor as real cherries.
Mind you: I don't think this would be a bad thing per se, but the manufacturers would need to put it on the bottle.
"I can't believe it's not honey!"
"Honey substitute".

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