Panel Domes
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Blair Wolfram
Jun 27, 2012, 4:04:56 PM6/27/12
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Gerry;
You've posted about several methods of cutting panels for panel domes, with different applications of rips, crosscuts and compound angles. Do you have a reference name for these different panel construction methods?
Blair
You've posted about several methods of cutting panels for panel domes, with different applications of rips, crosscuts and compound angles. Do you have a reference name for these different panel construction methods?
Blair
Gerry in Quebec
Jun 28, 2012, 1:59:05 PM6/28/12
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Hi Blair,
The only panel method I'm aware of that has anything close to an
accepted name is the "Pease" method with which you are very familiar.
Oddly, the architectural plan that recently won that Dutch award shows
Bucky's Pease dome in Carbondale with the dihedral angle accommodated
by ripping the struts on their wide side. But as far as I know, the
standard Pease panel method in decades gone by was to cut the ends of
the struts for individual triangular frames at the right compound
angles and then to bevel-rip the struts to allow the plywood to sit
flat on the frames. This method is still used by some builders,
including Darrel Mand at Natural Habitat Domes in Wisconsin. I think
James Lynch at Good Karma Domes uses this method too, but I'm not
absolutely sure. The technique of ripping the struts through their
wide face is used by Linda Booth's company, Oregon Domes.
In a separate post, I will attach a jpg which includes a method I have
used for a few small domes. For lack of an official name, I call it
the hybrid panel dome method.
Cheers,
- Gerry in sunny Quebec
On Jun 27, 4:04 pm, Blair Wolfram <thedome...@domeincorporated.com>
wrote:
The only panel method I'm aware of that has anything close to an
accepted name is the "Pease" method with which you are very familiar.
Oddly, the architectural plan that recently won that Dutch award shows
Bucky's Pease dome in Carbondale with the dihedral angle accommodated
by ripping the struts on their wide side. But as far as I know, the
standard Pease panel method in decades gone by was to cut the ends of
the struts for individual triangular frames at the right compound
angles and then to bevel-rip the struts to allow the plywood to sit
flat on the frames. This method is still used by some builders,
including Darrel Mand at Natural Habitat Domes in Wisconsin. I think
James Lynch at Good Karma Domes uses this method too, but I'm not
absolutely sure. The technique of ripping the struts through their
wide face is used by Linda Booth's company, Oregon Domes.
In a separate post, I will attach a jpg which includes a method I have
used for a few small domes. For lack of an official name, I call it
the hybrid panel dome method.
Cheers,
- Gerry in sunny Quebec
On Jun 27, 4:04 pm, Blair Wolfram <thedome...@domeincorporated.com>
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Paul Kranz
Jun 28, 2012, 5:40:07 PM6/28/12
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Gerry:
Now-defunct Cathedralite Domes, Cupertino, CA, pioneered the Pease system. Bucky was on their Board of Directors.
I know and worked with Roger and Linda Boothe (Oregon Domes) and used their method of ripping the edges of the panels as you described, but it sure eats a lot of wood. My preference is to use the Pease system as you described.
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