On Mon, 03 May 2010 18:48:22 -0700, Larry Jaques wrote:
On Mon, 03 May 2010 12:56:26 -0500, Frnak McKenney
wrote the following:
[...]
Do you have any suggestions for repairing an old-ish city-provided
"supercan"? This is one of those large green plastic cans with
wheels, a hinged black lid, and bolted-on tubing that is designed to
be lifted by the city trash collection trucks. I'm not certain what
kind of plastic it is, but it's thick-ish (1/8"?), flexible, and I'm
assuming it's some sort of polyethylene.
[...]
After the garbadj truck squoze mine too much and I detected vertical
cracks in it, I called the company and they replaced it a few days
later, free of charge. Won't your city do that?
Presumably. On the other hand, why pass up a perfectly good chance
to gain some experience working with heavy-duty plastic? I'd much
rather learn something before I need it. grin!
My first thought was sheet aluminium (Metal Content!!) tacked on
with pop rivets, and the bottom portion doubled over to add a bit
more wear protection. However, I'm concerned with how aluminium
would react with garbage leakage -- it might get eaten through
faster by organics than pavement weares it away.
I rather doubt it, but that possibility exists. How often does your
garbage leak caustic fluids, Fwanky?
I know that the local wildlife ('possums and raccons) have, from
time to time, climbed up the side of this supercan, popped open the
lid, ripped my bags to shreds, and scattered the contents. And I
don't rinse (e.g.) every ice cream box before tossing it.
[...]
Any ideas? Or is this a Complete Waste of Time?
CWOT, so I'll have Winston call you. 
Um... call me _what_? grin
Frank
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If teachers now lack the knowledge they need to teach reading and
other subjects well, it is not because they are innately
incompetent but because they have been trained under faulty
romantic ideas about the nature of reading and the worthlessness
of "mere iformation". -- E.D. Hirsch, Jr./The Knowledge Deficit
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