Submitted 2 weeks ago by Mickey7@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Use a Dremel tool to cut the pointy ends flat, then cut a slot in the flattened ends. Now you can simply unscrew the screws with a flat head screwdriver.
Hey, since they already fucked up your floor anyways, what they gonna do, bitch and cuss and then end up having to pay for repairs to the damages?
Battery bad… 120v ac good. Just one wire in the hot side touch one screw. Put it on a random timer, too , this way when they say it’s shocking it everyone else will think they crazy.
Decent way to end up with a manslaughter charge
I’ve been popped by 120 volt a few times.
It hurts like a motherfucker, but should throw a breaker or GFI before it kills.
Email the landlord, with photos.
Constant drip of wd40 or something down it
Cut out the bottom of a plastic container, glue it to the floor, but around the screws, fill it with cheap oil and go on with your day.
Inform the landlord, it’s their problem. If that’s their own property then. I don’t know a police report or something and lots of evidence and civil claims court.
Plot twist: OP installed the thing in their ground floor and didn’t measure correctly; now they at least want to cash in on the internet fame.
Police will 100% say it’s a civil matter.
Speak to the neighbour in the first instance, if that’s no good my home insurance company would be the next people I’d speak to.
Sir, this community is called “lemmyshitposts”
Cut them off with an angle grinder and go downstairs with a handful of ones.
connecting a battery would just short out the battery, either the pole has such a high resistance that it gets hot, or the battery destroys itself. either way its probably gonna end in a fire.
a car battery (lead acid) may also just boil until explosion.
To prevent lead acid getting sprayed everywhere, I would suggest the use of a lithium battery instead
so just a house fire then
how are the screws going through the upstairs floor what kind of apartment is that
An American, probably.
Usually the space between floors In a residential house is like 12" minimum. Not sure about highrises and large apartments though.
Car batteries are high ampere, low voltage. They wouldn’t feel a thing …
Actually considering all of those screws are connected together by the same (presumably metal) plate, this would just create a short circuit and heat up or even melt those screws and plate.
And the battery
It would start a fire from the wood long before the metal melts
A thick rubber mat
Yeah at best you’d start a fire at the roof. Wouldn’t do anything to the pole
The poles running through the floor would upset the electrical circuit, and the battery would explode. It’s best to have a clear path through instead of risking a fire.
I was thinking an electric fence energizer.
It wouldn’t work because there’s no circuit.
I know right? I felt like I must be losing my mind reading some of these comments
Put a cloth iron on top and leave it running.
Is she hot?
Why do you assume it is a she?
Because statistically most pole dancers are ladies.
Are those 1m screws or is it just in the Scandics that floors are at least 50cm thick with isolation and sound dampening?
A lot of apartments are just converted houses, or old with minimal such standards except basic structural. So the floor joists would typically be 2x10 (nominal inch). Possibly a neighbor below tried to install the pole and found only drywall ceiling and cut a hole. Instead of boxing between the joists and attaching to that, they just went higher to the next flat wood - the subfloor ply under the flooring - so possibly just 3/4".
Backing them out about half way.
If those are regular size flooring slats, the screws are impossibly large. I call fake.
Connect a tazer to it and sit back and laugh
cybervseas@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Ugh I want to “well, ackshually” this so badly…
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You may as well, now.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Please do. I don’t know what’s wrong with it
expatriado@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
the path of least resistance for the current would be down one connected bolt, then around the top plate, and up the other battery connected bolt, never down the pole, so the ceiling/floor gets heated up, possibly burn
note: those bolts must be supper long to go from ceiling to floor
markz@suppo.fi 2 weeks ago
It’s rather unlikely that the person touching the pole would provide a path from the pole to ground.
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
12V from a car battery doesn’t do much damage. You’d need, I think, 50V or 52V to get through the skin. Now, of course, if someone were to stick it in their mouth or some other area that doesn’t have skin, it’s a different story, then they’d get heavy burn marks on the path the electricity takes. So for safer electrocution, use AC, as that will also activate your muscles and push you away. While with DC, you’ll stick to it, as you grab onto it with a death grip. For advice on hurting yourself safely, just watch electroboom on yt.
cybervseas@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Every reply to your comment is correct. Together they explain everything wrong with the idea in that meme. I have no notes. Bravo @expatriado@lemmy.world @ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world and @markz@suppo.fi .
JelleWho@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Maybe if you just connect one side of the life wire to it. And ground the other one. That could work better
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Same.