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Old 09-10-2014, 09:58 PM   #32 (permalink)
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How well will bamboo hold up in both hot and cold weather, rain, humidity, etc.?
As well as the PVC in sunlight.

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Thanks to its unique composition, bamboo is naturally designed for strength...
As a result, in structural engineering tests bamboo has been shown to have...

Higher tensile strength than many alloys of steel
Higher compressive strength than many mixtures of concrete
Higher strength-to-weight ratio than graphite
But that's just my reaction to evil, evil PVC. Were it I, I'd get aluminum flashing metal and roll strips into 120° of a circle, cut the side pieces and roll the edges on a longer radius and rivet it all together. That would closely approximate the squircle.

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That sounds like a technical term; I like it.
Technically, it's a special case of the superellipse.

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Haha, in 3 feet, I can only get about to about 30% of a full tail based on the template, since my tail end is fairly squared off.
I felt bad when I wrote that. It was almost like a boast.
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