I'm about to tile the walls around a shower/tub, so I'm picking a tiling pattern for 3x6 inch tiles. I like how crosshatch looks. For the pattern to produce straight grout lines, each pair of tiles must make a square.
The thing is, my tiles aren't really 3x6 inches. They're more like 2 15/16 x 5 7/8. With the 1/16 spacers I have, each pair of tiles ends up making a rectangle 5 7/8 x 5 15/16, so the corners of each not-quite-square don't line up perfectly. Picture.
If I leave out some of the spacers, then each pair of tiles makes a perfect 5 7/8 x 5 7/8 square and the grout lines between each square are perfect. Picture.
I'm working with 1/16 spacers because I want thin grout lines, and the unsanded cement-based grout I have says the minimum tile spacing is 1/16. But I noticed that the tiles are wider at the base than at the top, and they have kind of a ridge around the edge (picture 1, picture 2). I know that some tiles with edges like this are meant to work without spacers. Could that be true of these ones? The space between tiles is about 1/32 without spacers (picture)
Is it okay to install the pattern with some of the spacers left out so that each pair of tiles makes a better square? How about with all of them left out?
Looking to get 20mm spacers for my 500 Abarth, but obviously with a less common bolt pattern, wheel spacers are 1-uncommon, and 2- very steep on price. Anyone who has messed around with spacers for their 500 have any tips or tricks?
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Half of the Patrol Interceptors died instantly.
Pilots died as they were too shocked to jink when their systems blared missile lock or a well aimed laser punched through cockpits and threw the crew into the void of space.
The only reason Milk and Cookie didn’t share the fate of their compatriots was because a lucky piece of simulated debris was turned to slag by a laser shot, barely keeping them alive as the veteran pilot turned hard, breaking away from an inbound missile while dumping countermeasures.
“All wing leads are down.” Milk reported, sheer bloody experience keeping her voice from wavering. “Tally 8 bandits. Fast movers.”
“All survivors. Focus fire on the 114th!” A voice from the radio called, one of the other surviving Interceptor pilots. “We’ve got ‘em 30 to 8. We can do this!” Her optimism was soon cut short as one of the Edixi pilots blitzed through a makeshift CAP line and turned her plane into scrap.
The Pilot was brilliant, there could be no other way to describe how they flew. Even when moving in a straight line, there were slight bobs and helix fight patterns keeping them from ever truly staying in the defender’s line of fire. Multilock missiles under her wings and a modified main cannon informed the Irish WSO that these were planes built for the sole purpose of dogfighting. She didn’t even see the normal Anti-Shipping missile hanging beneath the fuselage.
And that gave her a plan.
“Cookie, pull us closer to the Carriers. We need the cover and they can’t hit the ships.”
“But the other fleet can.” Cookie shot back, even as he began to dance towards the comforting point defense bubble. Some of the other craft tried to follow, trying to get inside the protective bubble of home plate.
But they didn’t heed Starbuck’s rule in their folly.
They broke contact and dove back towards home in a straight line, making the already easy shots even easier for the Interceptors dashing in and out of their midst. All around them simulated debris, panic and explosions rocked the silence between the stars.
It was almost beautiful, watching these ships detonate and burn from seemingly nothing, the fires from fuel lines licking the void before being consumed by the deepest darkness.
But they couldn’t admire the view for long. There was a fight to win.
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I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
