• JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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      6 months ago

      How bad could it be? They’d all be piled up at the bottom of one stud cavity and you know they’re there. If you’re demoing the wall you’re gonna have gloves and a shop vac and a bigass broom and shovel anyway.

      Still I got a little blade bank (about the size of those mini soda cans) on Amazon for $7 for my double-edge blades. Last year. And it still has plenty of room in it. Supposedly it holds 300 blades. That’s two blades a week for nearly 3 years. An absurd frequency…I replace my blade every week and I shave my head and they could totally go longer, they’re just so damn cheap.

      • LittleBorat2@lemmy.ml
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        6 months ago

        I think these plastic boxes the blades come in often have a slot for used blades on the bottom. They take up so little space without the paper around them that an entire pack fits into a 1mm slot maybe.

  • SolNine@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    Multiple homes I’ve lived in have had these slots in the medicine cabinets lol.

    Did they anticipate people not living long enough to care? Or that some biome would form to use the blades as food?

    Interesting decisions all around.

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          6 months ago

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  • Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    My dad’s workplace had something similar in the 1960s-70s. It was a plane hangar that was used by the baggage handlers.

    The walls were cinder block so hollow from top to bottom, they would open up the boxes of the mini alcohol bottles that would go on the planes and take handfuls of them out, once the bottles were empty they would dump them down the same hole until they actually filled one up then started on a new one.

    That would have been a surprise when that hangar got demolished and that wall opened up.

    • tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 months ago

      If they aren’t going to recycle which rarely happens even today that is probably just as good of a solution as landfilling them, those little bottles are littered all over the earth. When they demolish a building they would trash all that debris anyway, but yeah a hilarious find, hundreds of them lol.

      • Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca
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        6 months ago

        Probably more like thousands. The building was high enough to fit a passenger plane. So the space in one cinder block hole would 6 in x 6 in by 60 ft high. That is a lot of mini bottles.

  • Neato@ttrpg.networkEnglish
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    6 months ago

    A small blade safe can hold hundreds of blades and it’s like 4"x3"x3". Makes sense they thought the inside of drywall 5’x3’x1’ would be fine. It can probably hold tens of thousands. Even with a new blade daily that’s decades. And when you tear down the wall you’re dealing with Sheetrock, nails and screws already. All that time would have dulled the incredibly thin blades.

    This is all to say: it seems wild but was a decent idea.

    • doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 months ago

      It’s a pretty big area back there and razors are very small. It would take decades or maybe evenover a hundred years of regular use before it is likely to fill up. The building could even be condemned or otherwise destroyed before it’s full.

      But yes, if it did somehow fill up, you would need to remove the tiles and cut a section out of the wall to empty it. That’s not so big a deal if you only have to do it every 50+ years.

    • lars@lemmy.sdf.org
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      6 months ago

      I’ve totally been throwing ancient screenshots at almost-matching communities lately, including here, because I am trying get Lemmy some momentum – Lemmentum if you will – and be the change I want to see.

      But yeah no meme here.

  • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    Safety razors with disposable blades were introduced about 120 years ago, at one blade a day that’s a bit less than 45000 blades

    Double edged blades dimensions are: 0.1mm x 42.7mm x 22mm for 98.21mm³

    45 000 blades would take a volume of 4 419 450mm³ or about 270in³

    A regular indoor wall is made of 2x4 and each stud is 14.5 inches apart (16 inches on center). A 2x4 is in truth 1.5" x 3.5" so each inch of height inside the wall is 3.5 x 14.5 x 1 which is 50.75in³

    45 000 blades stacked perfectly would therefore use 270 / 50.75 = 5.32 inches of the wall’s height… So even if they didn’t stack perfectly, it’s pretty safe to assume that there’s enough space inside the wall for hundreds of years at one blade a day (especially since old houses usually used true 2x4 and had their studs at 24" on center)

    • redcalcium@lemmy.institute
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      6 months ago

      One blade a day?!! Are you a billionaire or something? The acceptable signal to replace the razor is when the pain from the dull blade pulling your hairs makes your eye watery, and then you try to man up for a couple more shaves before accepting defeat and put in a fresh blade.

    • prowess2956@kbin.social
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      6 months ago

      Also, most people use blades for more than one day’s shave. I think more like 3 - 7, depending on the blade and how picky the shaver (I get more than seven shaves per blade).

    • Amaltheamannen@lemmy.ml
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      6 months ago

      Assuming they would use the volume perfectly is a pretty big assumption, it’s likely you wouldn’t even get a tenth of that.