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Sometimes i am using an urinal and i feel like no engineers were involved in the design. Glad to see someone is actually approaching this with proper science.
by harvie 25d ago
Sometimes i am using an urinal and i feel like no engineers were involved in the design. Glad to see someone is actually approaching this with proper science.
There is more to it than the splashback tho. Sometimes it seems that the surfaces that already have splashes on them are not angled properly to lead the water to the drain. This seems to create need to have sharp edge/lip rather than round one, which might be tricky to make resilient in porcelain. But the rounded lip certainly allows for droplet flow towards the user rather than the drain hole.
- abyssin 25d agoMy pet peeve about urinals has to do with the way the separating walls are usually installed. It's systematically too low, as if their goal was to prevent splashing between each station instead of their role of visual privacy.
- SoftTalker 25d agoGo visit an older stadium in the USA. Either no separating walls, or just a trough where you stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the people on your left and right. Eyes forward.
- basisword 25d agoI very rarely see separating walls in the UK. Are they common in your country?
- seszett 24d agoThe US use separators between urinals but 5-cm gaps all around stall doors.
- peddling-brink 25d ago> as if their goal was to prevent splashing between each station Frankly, this is more important to me. I’m not looking around, and if someone else does, that’s their problem.
- xyzelement 24d agoThis is correct. We worry about getting someone's piss on us, not whether someone steals an admiring glance at our weiners.
- cucumber3732842 24d agoReally old urinals don't splash back. The engineers have spent the last 50yr trying to reduce water usage and material usage without making the product "noticeably" worse. Of course you add up 50yr of "it's 99% as good on our test, nobody will notice" and you get some degradation.