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From http://web.mit.edu/zacka/www/images/DSC_0567.jpg http://web.mit.edu/zacka/www/images/DSC_0567.jpg, it looks as though all of the load is distributed betwee

by dotBen 15y ago

From http://web.mit.edu/zacka/www/images/DSC_0567.jpg http://web.mit.edu/zacka/www/images/DSC_0567.jpg, it looks as though all of the load is distributed between the single middle-rear post and the two ceiling drops. I'm really surprised that was enough to support the weight of a person, possibly two.

schiffern 15y ago
Those 3/8" threaded steel rods have about a ton of tensile strength each.
- adestefan 15y ago
  My main concern would be the shear strength of the eye bolts used to connect to the threaded rod. I'd also put loctite on the nuts. God do those thing have a habit of wobbling loose on threaded rod.
  - there 15y ago
    my main concern would be drunkenly stumbling into one of those bolts sticking out. those need to be cut and rounded off.
twidlit 15y ago
on that rare but not impossible moment, will it support three people?
- suking 15y ago
  This is MIT - I'm surprised it ever needed to fit 2 :-).
  - Symmetry 15y ago
    That... doesn't really apply to EC. When I was a freshmen I thought of it as the "pot and people naked at parties" dorm. Which was actually pretty unfair, and there's a lot of variation between the floors there.