What doee one call this?

What do you call the material that all those signs strapped to
tellephone poles and on wires stuck in the ground are made of? By
people who have no respect for public property. They start off as
white, two layers with parallel "ribs" of the same material between the
two outer layers every eighth of an inch. Do you know what I mean?

micky > wrote:
>What do you call the material that all those signs strapped to
>tellephone poles and on wires stuck in the ground are made of? By
>people who have no respect for public property. They start off as
>white, two layers with parallel "ribs" of the same material between the
>two outer layers every eighth of an inch. Do you know what I mean?

Coroplast.
--scott

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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

micky > wrote in
:

> What do you call the material that all those signs strapped to
> tellephone poles and on wires stuck in the ground are made of? By
> people who have no respect for public property. They start off as
> white, two layers with parallel "ribs" of the same material between the
> two outer layers every eighth of an inch. Do you know what I mean?



Generically, it's called "corrugated plastic", and is usually made of
polypropylene.

It comes in sizes that refer to the overall thickness, expressed in Metric.
The most common size is 4mm.

"Coroplast" is one just brand. More he
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrugated_plastic

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Tegger

On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 22:32:58 +0000 (UTC), Tegger >
wrote:

>micky > wrote in
:
>
>> What do you call the material that all those signs strapped to
>> tellephone poles and on wires stuck in the ground are made of? By
>> people who have no respect for public property. They start off as
>> white, two layers with parallel "ribs" of the same material between the
>> two outer layers every eighth of an inch. Do you know what I mean?
>
>
>
>Generically, it's called "corrugated plastic", and is usually made of
>polypropylene.
>
>It comes in sizes that refer to the overall thickness, expressed in Metric.
>The most common size is 4mm.

Yes, all the ones I have are the same thickness.
>
>"Coroplast" is one just brand. More he
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrugated_plastic

Wow. You're both right. Thanks I'm glad I asked. I'd never heard the
word or the phrase before.

I go through spurts where I take down scores of those signs in my
n'hood in an hour or two. Sometimes several days in a month.
Baltimore County law even explicitly gives everyone the right to do that
when they're on public land or telephone poles, but I did it even before
the law was passed. (Since I started, someone else in this n'hood is
doing it too. I haven't seen him but I've seen signs disappear.) You
can see the difference too, there are far fewer even weeks after one of
us has been around. I leave the ones for things that are very near to
where the sign is, or events about to happen, and I leave political
signs, and probably summer baseball camp and other things I approve of,
and a couple other things

What I didn't expect is that those sheets have so many uses. So I
throw away a lot, but keep about 20 pieces of various sizes, and a few
of the wire things too. Also the long plastic ties, with the
indentations in one end and the locking square on the other end, I save
some of them. They have fewer uses, but when I needed to snake a wire
from the left end of the winshield, at the top, to the right end, for
power to the sunvisor vanity light, it was perfect, Or snaking from the
car door to the inisde of the car.

"micky" wrote:

> >"Coroplast" is one just brand. More he
> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrugated_plastic

> What I didn't expect is that those sheets have so many uses.

You mean like sliding a big one (old political signs are good) under
your car to do work? Lets you slide in and out easier, and they're
reusable and cleanable if you spill oil or something on them.

> (Since I started, someone else in this n'hood is doing it too.
> I haven't seen him but I've seen signs disappear.)

Any homeless folks around there needing ground sheets or
rain-proof walls/roofs for their semi-permanent "residences"?

You could Google "coroplast boat" too, if you like.

On Sun, 19 Oct 2014 11:54:09 -0700, "Sanity Clause"
> wrote:

>
>"micky" wrote:
>
>> >"Coroplast" is one just brand. More he
>> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrugated_plastic
>
>> What I didn't expect is that those sheets have so many uses.
>
>You mean like sliding a big one (old political signs are good) under
>your car to do work?

Absolutely. Especially when your car is parked on blacktop with plenty
of loose stones. Even kneeling on that stuff is hard when you're as
fat as I am.

>Lets you slide in and out easier, and they're
>reusable and cleanable if you spill oil or something on them.

And when spray painting on the lawn I used to use newspapers to avoid
painting the grass, but the slightest wind would blow the newspapers
around.

>> (Since I started, someone else in this n'hood is doing it too.
>> I haven't seen him but I've seen signs disappear.)
>
>Any homeless folks around there needing ground sheets or
>rain-proof walls/roofs for their semi-permanent "residences"?

Not around here. There are some people at the market on food stamps,
but no one is homeless.

>You could Google "coroplast boat" too, if you like.

I'll do that.
>

On 10/19/2014 2:54 PM, Sanity Clause wrote:
> "micky" wrote:
>
>>> "Coroplast" is one just brand. More he
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrugated_plastic
>
>> What I didn't expect is that those sheets have so many uses.
>
> You mean like sliding a big one (old political signs are good) under
> your car to do work? Lets you slide in and out easier, and they're
> reusable and cleanable if you spill oil or something on them.
>

I've got some thing like that in my truck, in
case I need to sit on the ground. One time I
was helping some friends repair a car, and the
snow was blowing, and we were cold. I was in
a garage at a house, but it was still cold.
Wished for some thing to put under me.
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Christopher A. Young
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Stormin Mormon wrote:
> On 10/19/2014 2:54 PM, Sanity Clause wrote:
>> "micky" wrote:
>>
>>>> "Coroplast" is one just brand. More he
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrugated_plastic
>>> What I didn't expect is that those sheets have so many uses.
>> You mean like sliding a big one (old political signs are good) under
>> your car to do work? Lets you slide in and out easier, and they're
>> reusable and cleanable if you spill oil or something on them.
>>
>
> I've got some thing like that in my truck, in
> case I need to sit on the ground. One time I
> was helping some friends repair a car, and the
> snow was blowing, and we were cold. I was in
> a garage at a house, but it was still cold.
> Wished for some thing to put under me.

I have two of the HF vinyl covered foam "mechanics pads". They are one
of the best items I've ever bought from any tool outfit.

http://www.harborfreight.com/folding...pad-93896.html

I have one with a headrest and an earlier one without. Both are REAL
handy items.


--
Steve W.

On 10/19/2014 6:40 PM, Steve W. wrote:
>
> I have two of the HF vinyl covered foam "mechanics pads". They are one
> of the best items I've ever bought from any tool outfit.
>
> http://www.harborfreight.com/folding...pad-93896.html
>
> I have one with a headrest and an earlier one without. Both are REAL
> handy items.

Closest to that in my kit is a carpet sample for
five bucks (coffee money) from a carpet place.
That does look useful, though. Thanks for the
link.


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Christopher A. Young
Learn about Jesus
www.lds.org
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Stormin Mormon wrote:
> On 10/19/2014 6:40 PM, Steve W. wrote:
>> I have two of the HF vinyl covered foam "mechanics pads". They are one
>> of the best items I've ever bought from any tool outfit.
>>
>> http://www.harborfreight.com/folding...pad-93896.html
>>
>> I have one with a headrest and an earlier one without. Both are REAL
>> handy items.
>
> Closest to that in my kit is a carpet sample for
> five bucks (coffee money) from a carpet place.
> That does look useful, though. Thanks for the
> link.
>
>

It is one of those "Why wasn't this on a tool truck years ago" items.
Easy to wipe clean, doesn't absorb anything that I've found yet. I've
used it on gravel, concrete, out in Vince's yard and more and no damage
at all.

--
Steve W.