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Need a portable one-car garage in a hurry? No need to put your construction skills to the test. Harbor Freight's 17-by-10-foot carport is one possible answer.
Steel is the oldest and highest tensile strength strapping. It is available in a variety of widths and thicknesses as well as variations in the grade of steel. Steel is used for heavy duty holding where high strength and minimal stretch are desired. Surface finishes for steel strap include: paint, paint and wax, bluing, or zinc and wax.
Edge banding or edgebanding is the name of both a process, and an associated narrow strip of material. It is used to create durable and aesthetically pleasing trim edges during finish carpentry. It is used to create durable and aesthetically pleasing trim edges during finish carpentry.
A driving band or rotating band is a band of soft metal near the base of an artillery shell, often made of gilding metal, [1] copper, or lead. When the shell is fired, the pressure of the propellant swages the metal into the rifling of the barrel and forms a seal; this seal prevents the gases from blowing past the shell and engages the barrel's ...
Awnings were first used by the ancient Egyptian and Syrian civilizations. They are described as "woven mats" that shaded market stalls and homes. A Roman poet Lucretius, in 50 BC, said "Linen-awning, stretched, over mighty theatres, gives forth at times, a cracking roar, when much 'tis beaten about, betwixt the poles and cross-beams".
Rubber banding or rubberbanding may refer to: in online video gaming, rubber banding is the undesirable visual effect of latency , known as lag , in which a moving object appears to leap from one place to another without passing through the intervening space; also called "warping" or "teleporting".