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I think this misses the beauty of a plaster wall. Level 5 drywall has nothing on a skilled artisan with plaster, and yeah you can’t hang things through it but i

I think this misses the beauty of a plaster wall. Level 5 drywall has nothing on a skilled artisan with plaster, and yeah you can’t hang things through it but it also lasts hundreds of years. My walls are 120 years old and robust, the kids haven’t damaged them and they’ve more than held up.

asdff 8mo ago
You can hang things through it just as easy as drywall too. Light stuff just put it right into the lathe. Heavy stuff, with both types of walls you are going to want to anchor into a stud.
- franktankbank 8mo ago
  How do you find yourself a lath? Try once if it doesn't hit then move up/down a 3/4 inch.
  - kevin_thibedeau 8mo ago
    You can see it on a thermal camera with a high resolution sensor from China (not the ITAR limited US tech).
    - amluto 8mo ago
      Got a link? This sounds handy.
      - kevin_thibedeau 8mo ago
        Thermal Master P3: 25fps, 256x192, manual focus
        blincoln 8mo ago
        Looks like it's improved even further - I'm seeing that model listed with 512x384 resolution, and it's $300 on Amazon. Pretty incredible! I felt like I was getting an amazing deal when I paid about $1000 15 years ago for a FLIR E4 that I could flash into an E8. I might finally retire that in favour of one of these.
        kevin_thibedeau 8mo ago
        That's the software upscaled size, not the real resolution. Typical distortions of East Asian marketing.
        amluto 8mo ago
        I would be amused if the actual reason for upscaling is that a 256x192 display is hard to source and that the firmware is partially shared between models with a display and models without one.
        kevin_thibedeau 8mo ago
        It connects to a cell phone for display so the image is scaled either way. The issue is how the chosen algorithm may be adding non-existent detail or not. If you disable the enhancement you get nearest-neighbor. The true sensor size is all that really matters. Flir has nothing in this segment that comes close to that.
  - asdff 8mo ago
    Pretty much but the wall is mostly lathe so you usually hit first go.

asdff 8mo ago

You can hang things through it just as easy as drywall too. Light stuff just put it right into the lathe. Heavy stuff, with both types of walls you are going to want to anchor into a stud.

franktankbank 8mo ago
How do you find yourself a lath? Try once if it doesn't hit then move up/down a 3/4 inch.
- kevin_thibedeau 8mo ago
  You can see it on a thermal camera with a high resolution sensor from China (not the ITAR limited US tech).
  - amluto 8mo ago
    Got a link? This sounds handy.
    - kevin_thibedeau 8mo ago
      Thermal Master P3: 25fps, 256x192, manual focus
      - blincoln 8mo ago
        Looks like it's improved even further - I'm seeing that model listed with 512x384 resolution, and it's $300 on Amazon. Pretty incredible! I felt like I was getting an amazing deal when I paid about $1000 15 years ago for a FLIR E4 that I could flash into an E8. I might finally retire that in favour of one of these.
        kevin_thibedeau 8mo ago
        That's the software upscaled size, not the real resolution. Typical distortions of East Asian marketing.
        amluto 8mo ago
        I would be amused if the actual reason for upscaling is that a 256x192 display is hard to source and that the firmware is partially shared between models with a display and models without one.
        kevin_thibedeau 8mo ago
        It connects to a cell phone for display so the image is scaled either way. The issue is how the chosen algorithm may be adding non-existent detail or not. If you disable the enhancement you get nearest-neighbor. The true sensor size is all that really matters. Flir has nothing in this segment that comes close to that.
- asdff 8mo ago
  Pretty much but the wall is mostly lathe so you usually hit first go.