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Well, concrete is solid and water is liquid. I know it sounds obvious, but have you ever seen in your life a plastic flask or tank or jerry can that after seve
by jaclaz 9y ago
Well, concrete is solid and water is liquid.
I know it sounds obvious, but have you ever seen in your life a plastic flask or tank or jerry can that after several years leaked?
It is of course doable, but how durable will it be?
Imagine the kind of vibrations and shocks a jerry can used as a counterbalancing device in a relatively hot environment needs to bear.
A good, environment-friendly idea would be to make the concrete counterbalances a "standard" (in size and holes/bolting) and re-use them.
Nowadays in most countries (excluded the developing ones) the market for washing machine is almost exclusively a replacement one.
You get the new washing machine (without counterbalance) and you bolt on it the one from the old machine, and you save also the cost of the plastic water container.
- LoSboccacc 9y agomake it metal, fill with sand
- jaclaz 9y ago...with an added cost of some 10-15 US$ for a steel tank that being just over something generating hot, humid air all the time will rust in no time or 40-60 US$ in the case of stainless steel. Then everyone has 20 Kg of sand at home (if you have to transport the 20 Kg of sand all the theoretical transport savings are gone).
- LoSboccacc 9y agoright, didn't think of rust - but sand can be easily obtained, beside most people use installers around here, so they'd be the one with the sand.
- GilbertErik 9y ago...but most people, whether using an installer or not, don't have multiple faucets that can dispense sand. Nearly everyone _does_ have access to water though.
- manarth 9y agoNearly everyone _does_ have access to water though. Certainly everyone installing a washing machine.
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