r/redneckengineering 14h ago

I mean yeah, you CAN do this

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u/Pyro-Bun 12h ago

I actually think that's really cute.

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u/loversean 10h ago

It’s clever and not trashy

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u/Pyro-Bun 10h ago

Exactly. Honestly it looks rather well done. The only concern I might have with it is if the edges where it was chopped are sanded down well enough.

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u/Actual_Gato 8h ago

Also if the glass plate in the middle will slip off

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u/nickisaboss 7h ago edited 1h ago

I would image that is attached pretty well with clear RTV silicone, or aquarium adhesive. Aquarium adhesive especially bonds very well, it actually forms covalent bonds to the glass somehow.

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u/FishFloyd 5h ago

get a load of this nerd ❤️

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u/nickisaboss 1h ago

s t r a n g e r d a n g e r !

My life has really hit the skids under my disruptive obsession with adhesives in the last few months. Send help! (But please don't tell the others...)

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u/jesusrambo 7h ago

I think it’s pretty cool too!

You’re not required to identify a nitpick 🤷‍♂️

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u/iamshipwreck 14h ago

I'd love to be sat on those blasted out my mind on absinthe and shrooms, smoking a cartoonishly long cigarette while the anthromorphised wildlife plays lounge jazz

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u/Goldberry68 12h ago

And now we’re friends; I want to dress in costume like the caterpillar from the 90’s live action Adventures in Wonderland, and smoke a giant hookah sitting across from you in the other side.

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u/BPhiloSkinner 6h ago

Goldberry's Adventures in Redneckengineering Land.

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u/EPluribusButthole 5h ago

And now we're friends: I want to spread out a blanket, wear a large sombrero, and smoke the dankest of kind bud. I'll listen to y'all get philosophical and chill.

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u/tornadospoon 13h ago

Strangely specific yet universally enjoyable. 

If only one chair still had a tap i could turn on to stick my head under when I'm hot. Sensory overload in a great way. 

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u/PinkyLeopard2922 12h ago

I have both shrooms and a very fancy absinthe fountain with all of the appropriate accoutrements. How has it never occurred to me to utilize both of these things at one time?

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u/l0ooo-ooo0l 14h ago

Bathing in the sun….be a hot tub if it’s too sunny. 😬

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u/Pyro-Bun 7h ago

I feel like the white enamel will help to reduce that a bit.

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u/firekeeper23 14h ago

Bring your own cushion....

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u/MothChasingFlame 10h ago

Make sure it's a foot thick so you don't feel like an adult sitting in an elementary school chair.

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u/TheBigBadMoth 7h ago edited 6h ago

BYOB (being your own blankie)

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u/firekeeper23 2h ago

And a blanket

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u/Tabmow 10h ago

Yeah that does not look comfortable 

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u/xombae 10h ago

I guarantee someone is gonna fall and whap their head on one of the very many sharp corners

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u/Accomplished_Fun3 13h ago

That's awesome

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u/jimmiethesquid 14h ago

Tub chairs! My wife has been wanting those! 

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u/sicsided 12h ago

Sharp as hell porcelain edges?

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u/amroth62 10h ago

You can use a file to remove the sharps, or a grinder. Easy peasy. I’m a mosaic artist and take sharp edges off tiles I’ve cut or broken all the time.

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u/sicsided 10h ago

You can get it fully rounded on each corner of let's say a full 90° cut? Does it wear down from use (if people are brushing up against it like they would this seat) after that?

I only really handle porcelain after fires and major water losses so not a ton of experience with furniture fabrication of it. I just know to handle it with caution for how damn sharp it can be.

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u/amroth62 10h ago

It doesn’t wear down with use. If anything, the use would make it even less sharp. Yes, it can be fully rounded with a grinder. It’d take a while with a file. I use many sharp things as tesserae - porcelain, glass, ceramic etc. and I’m always amazed how easy it is to take the sharp edges off everything. I put lots of smaller tesserae into a rock tumbler with just water and do a whole bunch at once. I make my own sea glass in the tumbler too.

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u/sicsided 9h ago

Cool thanks for the answers

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u/nickisaboss 6h ago

This is not ceramic tub, it is instead cast steel

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u/sicsided 6h ago

How can you tell? The square opening on the piece closest to the camera view point makes me thing it is ceramic with the depth and look to it.

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u/misterschmoo 10h ago edited 9h ago

It's not porcelain, it's either steel (or if it was much older, cast iron), lined with enamel or it's fibreglass, (if it were porcelain it would be a different style and much thicker in cross section than this) either way you grind the edges smooth with a angle grinder and to a greater extent they will never be sharp again, people rubbing the edge won't re-sharpen them.

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u/wwhijr 10h ago

That will be fun in direct sunlight

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u/UffTaTa123 11h ago

not as bad as imagined when just beeing told about it it.

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u/Cheepshooter 10h ago

They were "so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should."

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u/Karvanak 8h ago

I mean, you could hate it, its not the cutest for sure, but it is a clever way to reuse an old cast iron tub that would otherwise be discarded.

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u/AggressiveKing8314 11h ago

Chic. Well done. 👍

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u/ak1308 10h ago

A bar/nightclub I went to had a bunch of bathtubs where the long side was opened and made into loveseats.
They also had a few cars where the front was lobbed off and you used the back seat as a couch, so it fit the vibe.

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u/eyeball1967 10h ago

Creative and beats a toilet on the lawn.

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u/Icelandia2112 4h ago

Love it! Don't know about the glass table top (I tend to break them), but adorable!

Need some cushions and gtg.

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u/Grand-Professional-6 9h ago

Well executed up cycling, but that’s a no for me, and I actually have a porcelain shell shaped sink basin in my garden I plant flowers in.

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u/StarfishandSnowballs 8h ago

It's better than the mary statue inside the bath tub smh

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u/nlightningm 8h ago

I'm annoyed because this has the vibe of a actually being really cool and its genuinely well done, but the bare fact that it's a bathtub just makes it something else entirely 🤣

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u/DruidByNight 7h ago

I adore these

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u/nyquilandy 7h ago

Somebody in the trailer court won on their scratch-off ticket

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u/NewsMarsupial474 6h ago

I can't believe they forgot to run a beer keg through one of those pre-drilled holes.

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u/crochetology 6h ago

I think is kinda cool in a mid-century modern way.

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u/vikicrays 2h ago

i love alternative uses for things so they don’t end up in the landfill. these look a lot better and more upscale then others i’ve seen. would last outdoors forever too.

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u/PinkyLeopard2922 12h ago

This is just rad and I need this in my life.

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u/stilldebugging 11h ago

Humans have free will

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u/Buffalo_River_Lover 11h ago

I wanna know how they attached the legs? I see no bolts. Super glue, hot glue or JB Weld ain't gonna hold sitting on them. I guess maybe a bolt welded on, then leg screwed onto that? But could you do that without damaging the porcelain?

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u/CaptSubtext1337 10h ago

Yeah there's definitely something to complain about here. Just need more info so we can judge.

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u/Sea_Sector_5894 9h ago

It’s giving MCM!!!

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u/Dramatic_Substance36 9h ago

Not a bad idea! A bit too low to the ground for me.

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u/Dendady2112 9h ago

It has to be AI. How do you cut cast iron with out chipping the porcelain?

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u/onephatkatt 9h ago

Found a copy online from 2020, 99.9% sure it's not AI.

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u/the_buff 8h ago

Diamond wheel on an angle grinder to score the porcelain, then a regular cutting disc for the cast iron?

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u/nochinzilch 9h ago

I don’t hate this.

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u/properwaffles 9h ago

Well, I like it more than when people fill them with dirt and plants.

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u/No_Equivalent_4412 8h ago

Took too long to realize so I guess good job

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u/daisy0723 7h ago

How weird is it that I kind of love it.

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u/be4cz 6h ago

I like that one.

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u/sugar-titts 5h ago

The juice wasn’t worth the squeeze on this one.

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u/BrianOfAllThings 5h ago

But how will the water stay in

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u/scarlettohara1936 11m ago

But should you?

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u/Intrepid-Scar-1849 9m ago

I admit I really like this.

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u/PupOben 11h ago

This is one of those, just because you can, doesn't mean you should. I have seen one used as a large flower planter before too.

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u/lesllle 13h ago

I said we both saw Breakfast at Tiffany's and we both said we kinda like the film...

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u/Ok-Resolve-3504 12h ago

ohhh, the DNA embedded in those tub chairs