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Cake day: October 6th, 2023

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  • These signs also exist in the Netherlands, and the reason is because pumps are calibrated to a certain accuracy (say, 1%, for convenience).

    But in the real world, you can get a lot of variation from temperature, to how long it’s been since a pump was used, to how full the underground tank is. They all made a difference, mostly at the start and end of pumping.

    So you get a law in percentages, and you get a real world deviation in volume. Obviously, if your pump is short 50ml on 1 liter, you’re off by 5% and breaking the law. But of you slap a sticker on, telling everyone they “must” get 5 liters, you’re off 50ml on 5L, a perfect 1% deviation and entirely within the limit.

    But 8 gallon is BIG volume, damn.



  • Well apparently a few things that nobody actually bothered to write down is what kind of mud of need, how hard you need to force it into the wood, how much fiber you need to add.

    I mean, it’s kinda like those old cookbooks that just say “keep in medium oven until done”. Everyone just sort of assumes you have the Knack.

    Its partly because I do reenactment, and partly because I want a shed that I made myself. This is mostly a test to see how long it will survive in the rainy Netherlands.