Article 1050739 of alt.home.repair: Path: news.misty.com!not-for-mail From: nicksanspam@ece.villanova.edu Newsgroups: alt.home.repair Subject: Re: Repairing BB Hole in Window Date: 9 Oct 2008 14:18:50 -0400 Organization: Villanova University Lines: 45 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: acadia.ece.villanova.edu X-Trace: max.inside.misty.com 1223576332 20040 153.104.44.130 (9 Oct 2008 18:18:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@misty.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 18:18:52 +0000 (UTC) Xref: news.misty.com alt.home.repair:1050739 dpb wrote: >nicksanspam@ece.villanova.edu wrote: >> The parts might cost $25. Maybe less, for an aquarium pump and a timer and a little tubing and a plastic box and a few desiccant bags. >And futzing around for several hours... Maybe a half-hour :-) >w/ the end result being a partially evacuated window Not, when it's over. >w/ an obvious hole in the middle... Not, with an indexed-matched clear epoxy. >Meanwhile, $50 or so will put it back to new condition and depending on >insurance might conceivably even have some fraction covered. I just spent $230 for the glass and a few hours labor to replace a fogged sliding glass door panel. 10 P=.5*EXP(17.863-9621/(460+70))'initial cavity vapor pressure ("Hg) 20 W=.62198/(29.921/P-1)'initial humidity ratio (#w/#a) 30 PRINT P,W 40 P10=EXP(17.863-9621/(460+10))'vapor pressure at 10 F and 100% RH 50 W10=.62198/(29.921/P10-1)'10 F humidity ratio 60 W=.95*W'squeeze bellows 70 IF W>W10 THEN N=N+1:GOTO 60 80 PRINT N,W,W10 .3741957 7.87707E-03 31 1.525878E-03 1.536647E-03 ^ --- this woulda been 1/0.05 = 20 if there were no air mixing. Nick