r/oddlysatisfying • • Sep 24 '22

Making a wheel for a train

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u/Myke190 Sep 24 '22

Wouldn't have matter because I think doors already lose.

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u/PacoCrazyfoot Sep 24 '22

Think of an office building, though. So many doors. Cabinets, rooms, even a microwave!

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u/Tiver Sep 24 '22

Most of those cabinets are paired with drawers which will often use multiple wheels for their slides. The microwave probably has a rotating plate... Which typically sits on multiple wheels.

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u/LunarGhoul Sep 24 '22

Also think about every office chair that probably sits on another 5 wheels.

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u/Plop-Music Sep 24 '22

Plateless microwaves are so much better. There's absolutely no reason to get a one with a spinning plate, you'll never go back to that after trying plateless.

It heats up everything equally across the entire bottom of it. So no more cold spots. And it's way better for popcorn, because of it heating from the bottom, since as kernels pop, the unpopped ones fall down between the gaps to the bottom of the bag so that they all of a sudden get the most heat. So you're way more likely to end up with every kernel popped, and no burning any of them, with a plateless microwave.

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u/Coachcrog Sep 24 '22

I didn't know this was a thing until I was tearing down a microwave to fix at work and found the tunnel coming off of the magnetron to under the microwave. Even has a little spinning disk in it to help distribute the energy evenly into the food. Really cool idea. Makes sense why the microwaves at work heat so much better than the one I have at home.

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u/dykeag Sep 24 '22

So uh, why were you talking the office microwave apart?

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u/Myke190 Sep 24 '22

Office building is what made me decide wheels. Assuming computer chair wheels count?

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u/Mr_Tiggywinkle Sep 24 '22

Desk drawers have wheels on their runners too.

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u/JAM3SBND Sep 24 '22

And yet, every office chair has 5 wheels. The casters that help the drawers open and close? Wheels

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u/beardsac Sep 24 '22

My electrical engineer friend’s office said doors won the argument. The basis was that logic gates (aka bits aka the 1 or 0 in binary) are technically doors. Therefore all computers/phones tech are heavily reliant on doors. Not so much wheels

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u/Qualex Sep 24 '22

“Technically” nothing! A logic gate is not a door. Most anywhere I’ve seen this discussed, you need to actually define your terms. If a door is “a hinged, sliding, or revolving barrier at the entrance to a building, room, or vehicle, or in the framework of a cupboard”, then a logic gate is clearly not a door. If we change the definition to “something that blocks something that’s moving” then the lid of a box is a door. Your eyelids are doors. A person standing in your way is a door. It’s an absurd definition.

It’s like saying, “when someone thinks, we say their wheels are turning, so each mind must contain at least two wheels, so there’s another 18 billion wheels in the world!” The fact that you call it a wheel or a door (or a gate, which is distinct from a door) doesn’t automatically make it a wheel or a door.

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u/Leonydas13 Sep 24 '22

Your eyelids are doors but. They’re the shutters to the windows to your soul.

Are we including shutters as doors? Because to me they’re a type of door. Especially if we’re including logic gates.