Everything you need to know. I saw them at a recent hurricane workshop. These are multilayer polyester sheets designed to prevent glass from shattering (cost ~$5.50 per square foot), block sunlight (~$7 per square foot), or both (~$9 per square foot).


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8v01rwsSR4

Due to their incredible toughness and cut-resistance they are not a DIY sort of project. Professional installation is strongly recommended.

-Blast

If I had a spare 10 grand I would use it to pay for the windows I had installed this morning and the new roof that will be done if it ever stops raining!

Mike

A large generator, and a storage shed built like my storm room.


Edit: Maybe spelling and typing lessons also.

$10K is about right for what it cost us to replace the windows here with new thermal efficient windows. Great investment -- cooler in summer, better heat retention in winter. Here in SOCAL we've left the furnace off the past two years and the windows help a lot.

Finish up my 10/22 build $150.00
Two AR builds $3000.00
Ammo $1500.00
Camper for truck $1300.00
Vacation $1400.00
Emerson HD7 $300.00
Rock River .308 $2000.00
Emerson Super SOCFK $250.00
Streamlight TLR-1 $100.00

Scratch the Gen. Set. I just started pricing what I want. $10K would be the down payment, and I am not going into debt ever again.

Shed just got bigger!

Power your whole house and more: http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=192

Needs some electronics but well under 10k$ total. And that will last FOREVER as primary home power or backup Also sips the fuel compared to normal home systems.

It's no cheap HF China junk, it's rebuilt from the railroad industry.

There are a lot of other companies that rebuild them too from 3k to 6k... barebones to 100% complete w/mufflers and fuel tanks.

Def. the way to go to power your house and garage.

I plan to get one in the way future... solar is first

After two kids and a lifetime of bad eating habits, my wife needed gastric bypass, a tummy tuck, and a b**b job. Insurance paid for the GB and the tummy tuck (after losing that much weight, the tummy tuck became a quality of life issue). I am still paying on a $12,000 b**b job, but like John Candy said, they're fun for the whole family.

Interesting, I had wondered what was up with those.

Back a ways I got interested in Lister clone diesel engines. They run even lower RPM, run forever and are very quiet. However, they are made in India, so you really had to be on top of the quality control. At some point, the few people that where importing them ran into a brick wall with some customs issue WRT misapplied emissions standards.

It would be cool to run one of these on used veggie oil for electricity and also use the heat in the winter.

What do I google for to find more about them?

Hmm, one of those and I could set up my own little neighborhood power company. Diesel is easy to store and the unit would be too big to steal easily...

-Blast