Meeting maybe?

[chedabob]

instead of a meeting, just get some bigass game of counterstrike goin.

[nil8]

Not everyone here plays or owns counterstrike.
A videoconference would be sweet, but would require some real organization and bandwidth.
Here's a little piece of trivia for all of you. Why are barns painted with the red rust-based paint?

[tybrenis]

Many times, farmers used to add rust to their paint when painting their barns. This is becuase, for one, rust is easily found on farms usually, and two, rust helps make the paint resistant to mold, fungus, moss, plants, etc.

Then again, it's also just a tradition.

And, I have heard, that in the old days, wealthy farmers would mix blood in with their paint from fresh slaughters. They used to make paint out of everything, like milk, flaxseed (very common, still used today), plants, etc. Really anything they could scrounge up.

[ajmilton]

They used to make paint out of everything, like milk, flaxseed (very common, still used today), plants, etc. Really anything they could scrounge up.

sounds like they were modders ... kind of...

[gaz_the_chav]

**** man, you drive a capri? Stick a pic in the Cars thread!

There's a guy at my dad's flat who's killed one in an attempt to restore it. You can see he's just painted over the rust with red metal paint, probably the stuff for fences. It's a real shame.

-Dave

lol I will get one on saturday or sunday. It looks pretty bad but I rinsed a BMW M3 in it - 3.6 rear wheel drive. I also spin out at alot of roundabouts lol.

-gaz

[simon275]

instead of a meeting, just get some bigass game of counterstrike goin.

I am up for that which one counterstrike 1.6 or Source I have both.

[Cevinzol]

Here's a little piece of trivia for all of you. Why are barns painted with the red rust-based paint?

I'm from wisconsin, if there's one thing we have, its barns.
My Grandfather had a world champion holstein breeder's farm.
His barn was white, it help it stay a little cooler in the summer.
The University of Wisconsin Extension - Wisconsin Barn Preservation Program
Link to FAQ: Why are Wsconsin barns red?
"Red was the most inexpensive paint that farmers could buy early on."
In actuallity it became a positive feedback loop.
- Barns use a lot of paint.
- sellers get a discount from manufacturers for quantity.
- prices drop so more people buy the cheaper paint.
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wealthy farmers would mix blood in with their paint from fresh slaughters. They used to make paint out of everything, like milk

Please site your sources.
I find this hard to believe.
If you are going back in history far enough to sight this, then you are probably far enough back in time that people wouldn't waste it on a building, they would consume it themselves.
Blood pudding (its whats for breakfast, mmmm). Also one does not slap raw blood or raw milk on a building unless one wants to attract flies! Casein paint is derived from milk but its not straight milk. I imagine the blood version (if there is one) of this kind of paint is the same way. Its probably more effort to make and costs more than a mineral based dye.

rust helps make the paint resistant to mold, fungus, moss, plants, etc.

No again.
Zinc and Copper especially are used for affecting plants. And if that was a real reason for the paint color, then all barns would be shade of green. They (Cu & Zn) bind with the magnesium (Mg) at the core of the Chlorophyll molecule and prevent it from functioning. Its kind of like the plant equivelant of cyanide (CN). Iron won't do that.
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I won't de-rail this thread again but I really dislike bad science passed off as fact.

[chedabob]

wouldnt blood just coagulate and leave a nasty finish?

[tybrenis]

No no, I completely agree with you. I hate bad science passed of as fact as well. I was talking to my social studies teacher about it one day, so I looked it up and found something. Here is where I found it:

http://people.howstuffworks.com/question635.htm

[nil8]

Cevinzol got it. Ferric oxide was one of the cheapest and most available paints. That's why barns are painted red.

tybrenis is also partially correct. Flax-based paint does discourage mold production.

As for blood, not likely. In American paint history they went from whitewash to flax based to mineral spirit based and none of those involve blood or any raw animal part. Even the earliest forms of paint used mostly plants for their dyes because plant dyes don't stink or rot as quickly or badly.