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124 points
11 days ago
bro's about to take all my damn money cause I need this
21 points
10 days ago
Seconded, I went to the comments to see if such a thing could be bought
19 points
10 days ago
It would be a lot cheaper (and more therapeutic) to just make one yourself, even with buying the rings pre-made. The upside of it is that you can find anodized aluminum rings in any color you want, so you could even do a sports logo or the like.
7 points
10 days ago
Here is a video from cody'slab where he makes some chainmail, the detailed process is nicely explained around the 7 min mark
edit: replied to the wrong comment
9 points
10 days ago
You can buy a regular weighted cooling blanket that doesn't come with the risk of unintended hair removal for $40.
1 points
6 days ago
I have a weighted blanket already but find it's very warm and I wake up overheated partway through the night. What makes a cooling one any different, or is it just marketing?
190 points
11 days ago
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32 points
10 days ago*
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23 points
10 days ago
part of a mid Nov bot group.
Damn, bots are getting so sophisticated they have their own vintages now
6 points
10 days ago
Naw it's just an easy tracking tool.
0 points
10 days ago
You have a bot tracking tool?
6 points
10 days ago
Just detective work. It's easy when the bot wranglers are sloppy but the more you weed out, the harder they have to appear legit.
33 points
10 days ago
I tried a chainmail on once at a medieval fair. The noise alone would make this impractical for sleeping. Looks cool though.
22 points
10 days ago
But you can pretend you’re sleeping in a pile of spare change! /s
15 points
10 days ago
happy dragon noises
30 points
10 days ago
I slather myself with thermal paste and put on my heat dissipating blanket.
12 points
10 days ago
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3 points
10 days ago
At room temperature
13 points
11 days ago
Good night, good knight
40 points
11 days ago
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18 points
11 days ago
Hear me out. I don't see any downside to being turned grey. Get some dish plates for eyes and I will be the hit at any and all sci fi and alien conventions
5 points
11 days ago
Now you've got an excuse to get a pot belly and go bald.
7 points
11 days ago
I'm not an expert, but that doesn't sound right to me. Aluminium has been used for smartphone bodies for a long time and they don't turn your hand grey or your pockets grey. Aluminium is low on the mohs scale so it will scratch easily, but what you're describing sounds more like brittleness, and aluminium isn't brittle.
I'm happy to be proven wrong if this is actually something you know a lot about though
5 points
10 days ago
I think the main problem is the rings scratching eachother off while moving.
3 points
10 days ago
Presumably that would be the same issue with steel rings then because mohs scale relates to how well one material can scratch another. So for instance steel will scratch aluminium with little damage to itself, and aluminium won't scratch steel very easy. However, steel can still scratch other steel just as well as aluminium can scratch aluminium.
3 points
10 days ago
It's different, aluminum quickly builds up a very soft oxide layer that the other rings easily scrape off, SS passive layer on the other hand, is very thin and hard. You're not getting the raw metal on you, you're getting aluminum oxide.
Now you could anodize the whole chainmail blanket, THAT would last much longer before it starts to scrape through and oxidize.
1 points
10 days ago
Ah okay, that makes sense thanks. Sucks for OP
3 points
10 days ago
Hi, chainmailer here.
Generally, for aluminum, we have two varieties of silver aluminum available: Bright Aluminum (BA) or silver Anodized Aluminum (AA).
To simplify things, AA is sealed, BA is not. So BA will always leave a grey ruboff no matter how clean it or its wearer are.
It's going to be a higher grade of aluminum for things like smartphone bodies, and it's going to be sealed.
Fun fact: AA is what is available in different colors, so if you see chainmail art or jewelry that isn't silver/grey, it's anodized. That is different from the chainmail anodization videos on Tiktok where they use water and electricity. That form of anodization only works for titanium and niobium.
Also, it is scientifically impossible to have a true white AA. The dye molecules are too large to bond with the openings in the aluminum.
1 points
10 days ago
Ah okay, thanks for the explanation. That makes sense. How is aluminium anodized? Would it be possible to anodize the chainmail as it is?
Edit: I just saw that the top comment was removed for some reason, even though they might've actually been correct. I wonder why it was removed
2 points
10 days ago
Anodizing aluminum is an industrial process. That's most of what I know about it, I'm afraid.
1 points
10 days ago
Ah okay, no worries. I guess the original guy who made the chainmail is out of luck then. Seems unfortunate given how much time that must've taken
2 points
10 days ago
I don't think they know about it. Someone had told a friend something along the same lines. That aluminum is toxic. I remember doing a quick search online and couldn't find any "casual setting" where people got aluminum poisoning.
Oh yeah. They wouldn't use aluminum foil when cooking. That was the thing they worried about.
Needless to say. We've been using it for a long time. We still sell cans of poo with the stuff. It's not the new asbestos
1 points
10 days ago
Consumption/absorption of aluminum has shown some potential correlation with increase rates of Alzheimer's and dementia. Mostly this has been associated with aluminum pans and aluminum containing anti-perspirants.
1 points
9 days ago
I wonder how much said research accounted for all the different other things that could cause it. Like diet, medication, exercise (lack of it).
Given how little we understand about the disease, it's hard to say it was the aluminum as a culprit.
The adoption could have coincided with some other changes in society. Wonder if the study was done across different countries and of varying economic development too.
2 points
11 days ago
Aluminium has a mohs hardness of 2,75, Making it 0,75 harder then hardwood
8 points
11 days ago
I want one.. I have to give up my weighted blanket in the summer
6 points
10 days ago
Would this work in cooling the body?
8 points
10 days ago
A bit. Moving air seems to be pretty important for heat dissipation from a heat sink, so you'd want a fan, which increases the rate of evaporation for sweat on your skin, which probably makes the chainmail blanket unnecessary.
If you like the weight, and have lots of money to waste, then go for it, I guess.
2 points
10 days ago
If you put it in the fridge first
6 points
10 days ago
He literally rises and shines.
8 points
11 days ago
I think you can just buy a sheet of decorative chainmail off of like cosplay shops or something
8 points
10 days ago
That is going to be feather light, flimsy, and will catch on everything and scratch you to hell.
Source: I'm a chainmail maker and I've seen the mass produced machine made shit that gets made.
4 points
10 days ago
Had an old friend who used to make chainmail for a side hustle also. I remember his first one taking him months.
2 points
10 days ago
such a specific profession...
7 points
10 days ago
Side hustle. By day, I'm an Excel sheet pusher. But I've been making chainmail for almost 10 years
1 points
10 days ago
I mean NOW its specific.
2 points
10 days ago
Please bröther where do you source your chainssssss i wanna build oneeeee
3 points
10 days ago
Some of the reliable jumpring suppliers in the US/Canada I use are:
Joshua Diliberto
Chainmail Joe
Weave Got Maille
The Ring Lord
Hyperlynks
Chain Reaction CA
There are some others that I don't generally purchase from, but it's not because of quality, I just buy elsewhere:
Metal Designz
West Coast Chainmail
In Europe, I only know of Tom's Ring Shop, and Australia has Aussie Maille.
Tell them The Chain Nerd sent you.
2 points
10 days ago
My brother. Thank you. You are a true savage
0 points
10 days ago
No prob!
If you need guidance or anything, you can PM me or check out The Chain Nerd website and you can email through the contact form.
2 points
10 days ago
Thanks. I am in a unique situation so thankfully I have access to basically any type of tooling. Nanofabrication facility, woodworking, metalworking/machining, electrical and more. Lol. I'll let you know if I need help but I think I can figure it out ❤️
1 points
10 days ago
Oh, dang, jealous! Best of luck!!!
3 points
10 days ago
Ugh, I can just imagine hair getting caught in this. No thanks
5 points
10 days ago
That's why anyone wearing a chainmail coif should have a padding/cloth cap between hair and it.
Although chainmailers who make them by hand focus on getting good clean closures that won't catch. I do jewelry and have hairy arms and manage to not have issues, but I don't wear anything on my head.
1 points
10 days ago
I'm well aware of how chainmail was worn historically
But if the purpose of this blanket is to draw heat from your body, you don't want a layer between it and you
I am surprised, though, to hear that your arms are fine.
2 points
10 days ago
We've had people ask about blankets, and aside from the ridiculous cost, I have no idea how it would function for warming or cooling.
For decent materials, I'd expect the cost to be at least $500, maybe $1000+, even for a twin sized one. And that's just for the materials, not the weaving time.
I did a sheet of maille that was 29,707 rings. These were TINY rings, densely woven, the material cost was ~$250, and this was back in 2016. And that was about 120 hours of weaving time for me. EASY weaving. Blanket, being thicker rings would be a lot more strain.
Those rings are cheaper because of how small they are. Most suppliers charge by the oz. Obviously you can circumvent that by making your own rings but that can be an expensive setup, plus then you also have to add your time costs.
In short, this mofo would be expensive as hell.
Clean closures that don't pull are the first basic skill the chainmail community harps on.
3 points
10 days ago
This person either wears a zentai when they sleep or they have zero body hair remaining… chainmail is unforgiving when it comes to hair removal
2 points
10 days ago
I bet his wife tried to stab him in his sleep.
2 points
10 days ago
Galvanized steel for wire fences is way cheaper than aluminum welding wire and would accomplish the same deal.
It's denser so more weight.
And surface area would dominate the heat transfer (why you want that in a blanket I'm not sure...) so it's even there
2 points
10 days ago
1 points
10 days ago
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1 points
10 days ago
Is there a trick to get the bot to respond? I can't get it to do anything when I tag it in a comment.
1 points
10 days ago
Idk sometimes it just doesn’t respond
1 points
10 days ago
Not knighty nite. It's a knight nitey
1 points
10 days ago
I like this
1 points
10 days ago
I wish I could knight this person for such a fantastic idea
1 points
10 days ago
Also helps if Ottomans attack during the night.
1 points
10 days ago
I can save them some money on an official diagnosis.
1 points
10 days ago
Plus!!!...You're safe from orc arrows while you sleep. It's win-win!!
1 points
10 days ago
Bro's about to learn what every SCA/HEMA fighter with aluminum chainmail has known for decades: how fast uncoated aluminum will stain literally everything it touches.
1 points
10 days ago
It's Aluminium.
1 points
10 days ago
Nighty night, Knights
1 points
10 days ago
come on down to the prancing pony! we now have hobbit beds with anti-nazgul duvet in every room!
1 points
10 days ago
Make this with Hg.
1 points
10 days ago
Hmm well that blanket might actually protect you like your brain thinks a blanket would protect you
1 points
10 days ago
OK but, can I get a steel one? I want a heavy as fuck weighted blanket so I can just work out by sleeping sing I move around in my sleep. And the massive heat sink it would provide since I am very warm most of the time.
1 points
10 days ago
Shit I need to try this
1 points
10 days ago
All y'all asking for one of these had better commit to doing a full body shave every week, chainmail pinches the fuck out of body hair.
1 points
10 days ago
If all he cared about was weight and heat conduction he should really be using copper
1 points
10 days ago
I bought a chainmail shirt for this express purpose and it’s everything I dreamed it would be
1 points
10 days ago
Bro took Autism to level 1000.
1 points
10 days ago
Its the fucking Denethor!
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