Hasta La Ideas

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pI found these doodads kind of interesting: They’re an engineering solution to the industrial problem of how to securely mount something heavy and vibration-prone, like a generator, to something else in such a way that the former doesn’t shake the bejeezus out of the latter and rip free of its moorings. /p

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pCalled Rope Isolators or Cable Isolators, they come in A HREF=”http://news.thomasnet.com/fullstory/New-Circular-Wire-Rope-Isolators-from-AAC-Feature-a-Low-Profile-for-Compact-Military-and-Industrial-Applications-834093″ circular/A and A HREF=”http://www.vibrationmounts.com/Store.asp?Page=RFQ/VM05024.htm” linear/A variants and are designed to be corrosion-free, no-maintenance, no-lubricant-required devices. /p

pAdmittedly these are more of an engineered object than a designed object, but I’m digging their industrial-octopus aesthetic and am posting them here in the hopes one of you will incorporate them into some type of furniture design.br /
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