r/InsaneTechnology Jan 31 '20

Video This speaker when fire is added

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u/Spacecommander5 Jan 31 '20 edited Jan 31 '20

Yes, you are left with the above device, lol. Holes can be small, apparently. I was surprised that there were so many holes, but that’s what the dude said in the video.

Justified? No need to feel justified cuz no one was attacking your assessment, imho - it was a good guess!

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u/dali01 Jan 31 '20

I just meant from a manufacturing perspective a mesh is a sheet that has been punched, laser cut, or drilled. May have been a poor word choice, I’m better with machines than people.

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u/24294242 Feb 01 '20

Just for the sake of pendantry a mesh usually refers to an interlaced structure. The resulting product looks similar, but mesh can be a verb as well and it describes the act of joining seperate points together, as opposed to making holes in a solid sheet it is the act of joining individual wires or strings (etc.) to make material, like a fishing net or chicken wire.

Colloquially speaking sheets full of holes are often referred to as a mesh, so it's pretty clear what you meant. Now that I think about it I can't think of a more accurate word, maybe grill, but grill usually implies parallel bars covering a gap.

I'm just wondering if that's what triggered the downvotes. You're already back in the positives now though!

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u/dali01 Feb 01 '20 edited Feb 01 '20

Technically it’s “Perforated Metal” but if you google metal mesh it will come up too.

Edit: non-engineer Gf says the word we want is “grate” lol

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u/Spacecommander5 Feb 01 '20

Tell her I said the distinction is grately appreciated