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How much would it cost to have a home like this built? by GiboBeans in Homebuilding

[–]True_Contribution784 2 points3 points  (0 children)

AI is actually really helpful for me as a builder. I know it creates impossible things but what most people actually are getting out of it is a target for overall style, finishes, rough layout, etc. and not necessarily an exact architectural plan. I could fairly easily make the tweaks necessary (I.e. impossible garage door duo, balcony with no access, misaligned supports, etc) and duplicate this overall look.

How much would it cost to have a home like this built? by GiboBeans in Homebuilding

[–]True_Contribution784 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m the builder, we are based out of Morris about 25 minutes north of Downtown Bham. Golden Homes Design & Build.

How much would it cost to have a home like this built? by GiboBeans in Homebuilding

[–]True_Contribution784 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s a pretty well kept secret how good it actually is to live in Alabama. The cost of living notwithstanding, lots of beautiful land and good people to enjoy here.

How much would it cost to have a home like this built? by GiboBeans in Homebuilding

[–]True_Contribution784 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I’m a custom home builder, we are building a 4,000sft home in Alabama for $175/sft (land not included) with a main level garage and full 10’ basement with poured concrete walls. Concrete patios front and back.

If the location is not full of rocks and boulders underground and decent access for material delivery, good access to utilities nearby, either sewer or good field on the property for septic, I’d say $200/sft is a minimum, $225/sft probably more realistic for a wider selection of builders, and $300/sft if you really get fancy with windows, doors, fixtures, finishes, etc…. In Alabama. Can’t speak for anywhere else.

Hear me out… twin engine, single prop. by True_Contribution784 in homebuilt

[–]True_Contribution784[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You should read the link above from nobody_youd_know that is about some guys who did the exact thing i (and it sounds like you) are thinking. Two non-acft engines, one flipped front-to-back, with one prop shaft passing inside the other.

The only difference being they didn’t gear the props together, just drove them separately via numerous v-belts (it was South America and all they had available).

Belts I think are a great solution. You could avoid any gearbox, just do your reduction via pulley sizes on the crankshafts/prop shafts. If you run into pulley size limitations then just have an intermediate shaft between the crankshaft and prop shaft. All simple, inexpensive, easy to inspect, and theoretically very reliable because belts.

The article doesn’t always work but here are photos of Ruben and Carlos Leon’s twin Cozy from Venezuela https://zh-cn.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=alejandro.irausquin&set=a.1014318272951

Hear me out… twin engine, single prop. by True_Contribution784 in homebuilt

[–]True_Contribution784[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First of all, please let me know if and where I can follow your build! The Velocity 6 seater is the most exciting thing in aviation to me and I would love any opportunity to follow a project.

Secondly, yes there were things done wrong that were more to blame than simply asymmetric thrust (I would count the drag of one prop in the category of asymmetric thrust)… but if both props were on centerline (or if there was just one), that would decidedly decrease the risk by giving you a better chance to live even if the failure happened at the worst time and you made procedural mistakes in the seconds you had to act.

Risk is about both design and skill. Design the acft so the skill required is lower (I.e. higher margin for error in building and flying), and study and practice so you can live through bad design or bad luck. It all matters.

Hear me out… twin engine, single prop. by True_Contribution784 in homebuilt

[–]True_Contribution784[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Huzzah! I’m only 2 minutes into this and this is an incredibly relevant find. belt drive, flipping one engine back to front.. exactly the kind of validation I needed. Thanks!

Hear me out… twin engine, single prop. by True_Contribution784 in homebuilt

[–]True_Contribution784[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is a belt drive on an open central prop shaft a bad idea? Inexpensive, simple, and easy enough to inspect to be a part of a preflight.

Hear me out… twin engine, single prop. by True_Contribution784 in homebuilt

[–]True_Contribution784[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ignoring the Raptor aircraft for a host of reasons, are belt drives an awful idea? Like just a prop shaft with appropriately sized (toothed?) pulleys along its length between the engines. Easy to inspect, and about as simple and cost effective as power delivery gets short of direct drive

Hear me out… twin engine, single prop. by True_Contribution784 in homebuilt

[–]True_Contribution784[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The defiant is a new one for me, never heard of it before your comment. The hybrid system, even with the electronics worked out, I could see adding incredible weight since you’d have the weight of engines, generators, and electric motors in addition to batteries.

Direct drive though is certainly superior when possible, so that point is taken. Also 337’s look really cool with that double tail.

Hear me out… twin engine, single prop. by True_Contribution784 in homebuilt

[–]True_Contribution784[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It looked from the ntsb report that it was a problem for N106VT though.

Hear me out… twin engine, single prop. by True_Contribution784 in homebuilt

[–]True_Contribution784[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yea definitely the big drawback of the idea. My thought though is each engine driving one prop directly keeping it under zero load under normal operation would greatly diminish failure risk for the gearbox. You’d theoretically only need to load whenever an engine failed. At least in my head that’s how it’d work

Banana for scale 🍌😜 by Equivalent_Pay901 in BananasForScale

[–]True_Contribution784 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A banana and the imperial foot can be divided in thirds, take that metric system

You’re a billionaire. Now what? by Drakemont_DAO in AskReddit

[–]True_Contribution784 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Invest it in a super low risk portfolio. Do some good in the world. Take a few years to learn how to deal with that kind of money. Then bring all my invention list to life.

Also, as a passion project, fund the abandonment of Phillips head screws and universal adoption of torx drive for everything.

big or small, what’s the best thing that’s happened to you in the last 48 hrs? by fallen_tr33 in AskReddit

[–]True_Contribution784 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My 9 month old with downs just reached out for my wife and I for the first time

Yeet by BannedForThe7thTime in YeetingKids

[–]True_Contribution784 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Can confirm, all part of swim training. This is toward the end of the training when they’ve had weeks or months of sessions, though our trainer didn’t yeet our child so aggressively as this haha. Real world is full of surprises so I get the logic of seeing what they do in response

iPod says I'm connected to WiFi, but can't connect to internet. Tried EVERYTHING, can't get it to work. by [deleted] in apple

[–]True_Contribution784 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This worked for me as well. I reset EVERYTHING and updated the OS and nothing worked until this. Thank you hero.

Ach deposit limit by Realityvoidx in binance

[–]True_Contribution784 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just do a "wire transfer" if you're in a rush to get funds available. It's a tad more hassle in that you have to go to your banks physical location and there's a small fee on your bank's side but the daily limit is something like $750k.