What is the little spit bucket in a saloon called?
I'm putting together a "man cave" and I love antiques. Especially things that are cowboy-ish. I was wondering what the little brass spit buckets are called. You see it in movies all the time. The cowboy spits his dip at the bucket and it makes a "PA-TOOOON" sound. Anyone know the proper name?
How many 5 gallon buckets of sand does it take to fill a little tykes turtle sandbox?
My nephew has this sand box. We used 40 lb bags of sand and it only took about 3. You dont want to much incase you do have to move it. Also, depending on where you live, bugs can get in it and it will be harder to get them all out if you have to much sand, I'd get 2 or 3 and you should be fine.
If I keep 10 litres of water in a bucket in the sun, how much water (in average) will be lost in one day?
What color is the bucket?That's actually more important than you might think. Usually, questions about how fast water will evaporate are impossible to answer, because that depends on many different factors. But this one isn't that hard to estimate, if we simply assume that all the solar heating is lost by evaporation (which is not a bad estimate to make).I ask the color of the bucket, because water reflects very little light, but transmits a good deal of it. If the bucket were white or shiny, and relatively shallow, then a lot of the energy from the sun might be reflected back out. Assuming a bucket that's dark, and absorbs almost all of the energy, it becomes much simpler.The thing is, the volume of the bucket doesn't matter, what matters is the surface area. In this case, the total surface exposed to the sun. For simplicity, I'm going to assume that the water's surface is 1000 square centimeters (which seems more or less reasonable, for a typical-sized bucket. In direct sunlight, on a cloudless day (and ignoring other sources of heat transfer), the sun would deliver 900 W/m2, which means the bucket would take 90 watts of power.Evaporating 1 gram of water takes 4100 joules of power. So, if those 90 watts are all absorbed and then lost by evaporation, we'd lose a gram every 45 seconds. That means that the entire 10 liters would evaporate in 7,500 minutes or 125 hours of direct sunlight. Of course, the sun is constantly moving, but I'm going to swag it at the equivalent of 8 hours of direct sunlight per day (depending on location and season), and assuming other sources of evaporation (like evaporation at night) are small enough to be ignored. That means the entire bucket would evaporate in 16 days.There are plenty of factors that would change that number (bucket size, shade, ambient temperature, etc), but there's almost no way an open bucket containing 10 L of water is going to last a year without drying up completely.To answer your second question, yes a layer of oil on top of the water would radically reduce the rate of evaporation, enough to make this whole line of reasoning obsolete. The oil would act as a moisture barrier, making evaporation almost impossible. I wouldn't even venture a guess as to how long the water would last under those circumstances.
Did your KFC bucket ever spin?
When I was little (back in the early eighties) at our local Kentucky Fried Chicken, the sign was an actual bucket on top of a pole. What's more, that bucket would continuously spin. They took it down and replaced it when I was little, so even now I am unsure about my memories of it... then I saw a vintage 60's commercial on youtube for KFC where the bucket spun. Does anyone else remember their bucket spinning?
Does anyone know of a recipe for KFC little bucket chocolate parfaits?
it's just graham cracker crumbs with chocolate pudding, whipped cream and chocolate sprinkles.
Can a small amount of gasoline be burned in a bucket?
Yes.I recommend a metal bucket, and that you don’t try to ignite it by holding a match all the way down to the surface of the gasoline, as ignition can be sudden and violent.Better to throw something burning into the bucket from a couple of meters away, preferably something light enough to not splash the gasoline or tip the bucket over.
What do you call those metal buckets in hospitals that you pee in?
A pisspot
Why is lifting a bucket of water using a pulley easier than lifting the same bucket of water directly with our hand?
I have noticed that the other answers here deal with the 'actual' weight being loaded at the fixed point of the pulley, distributing force uniformly through the ropes etc.However, this is not so.The pulley commonly used to to lift buckets of water from a well is a Single fixed pulley. Here the load (the weight of the bucket) is equal to the effort applied by you on the other end of the rope. So you need to apply the same force as the weight of the bucket.This is also the case when no pulley is used at all, i.e. the effort required is the same in both cases!How then does a pulley make it easier to lift the bucket?The answer is that the pulley helps us apply the same force in a convenient direction i.e. in the direction of gravity-downwards. By doing so you can use your own weight in applying the effort( mind you the effort to be applied is still the the same). So, here all you have to do is grasp the rope and throw your weight downward as opposed to using only the muscles of your arm to try and lift the bucket out of the well without a pulley. Therefore the pulley makes it 'easier' for you to lift the bucket, by changing the direction in which force is applied to a more convenient one.