{"id":117,"date":"2004-06-04T07:21:19","date_gmt":"2004-06-04T15:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=117"},"modified":"2004-06-04T07:21:19","modified_gmt":"2004-06-04T15:21:19","slug":"115-earthquake-screws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=117","title":{"rendered":"#115 :: Earthquake Screws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.factoidlabs.com\/heavy\/archives\/2004\/06\/060404.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.factoidlabs.com\/heavy\/archives\/2004\/06\/060404.html', <a href=\"http:\/\/viagra-cost.net\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">stomach<\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/cialisdiscount.net\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">search<\/a> &#8216;popup&#8217;,&#8217;width=500,height=500,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#8242;); return false&#8221;><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.factoidlabs.com\/heavy\/archives\/2004\/06\/060404-thumb.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bsc.ca.gov\/\">California&#8217;s Building Code<\/a> is meant to protect you from the three horsemen of the apocalypse &#8211; fire, flood and earthquakes. Rioting &#8211; the fourth, unofficial rider and a much less frequent destroyer of lives &#8211; is not provided for in the code. Fire and flood-preventative designs have been around for years, and but for a few structural improvements and new cites in the code for things like fireproof shake-style rooves, I&#8217;m guessing the greatest leap in technology has been in the realm of earthquakes. Two architect friends of mine are now learning all about it by slogging through the arduous year-long state licensing process, which has something like nine exams. But you don&#8217;t need to know any of that to buy earthquake-proofing hardware such as foundation bolts and galvanized steel truss straps for strengthening your rafters. Like other Venice homeowners, mad for jury-rigging new structures in their back yards just under the radar of the generally tolerant, or perhaps ignorant code enforcement department, I did a little DIY earthquake-proofing in our last house. That&#8217;s when I discovered my favorite screws. Stout, sharp, versatile and cheap. They&#8217;re self-drilling and magnetic. You can stick one on the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Screw\">Philips<\/a> bit of your screwgun, reach overhead or below where you&#8217;d care to crouch, and poke it onehanded into anything that needs fastening. Zzzzzzip. The thinking man&#8217;s duct tape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}