Geodesic Dome i am looking for plans with complete material list. i have not been able to find one
Posted Jun 30, 2022, 11:03 PM UTC
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These guys have calculator and full list of materials you would require https://buildwithhubs.co.uk/
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You can get a kit for all the joints. Then you just by broom handles
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Buckminster Fuller developed the geodesic dome. Did he write any books?
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See also Bucky balls and Fullerene.
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Our 12' + (2 meter) radius 3/4 geodome was built according to details from a parametric web site that's unfortunately no longer available (thank Putin). But there are a number of kits for connectors that are available. I fabricated a 'kit'; connector rings of 2 1/2" pvc conduits and 1-1/2" square treated wood cut from 2x4's. Went together surprisingly easy, hardest part was cutting down a stock aluminum storm door to 72". If you can afford it I'd recommend skinning with twinwall poly, 6 mil greenhouse film doesn't have much of an R value.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Greenhouses/comments/u9tso9/before_and_after/
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I mean it's pretty simple. Two different triangles. You'll need to scale to what you need but seriously you shouldn't be attempting this if you can't design and plan it.
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I can design and build it. Id rather plans with no waste and see the cost of lumber before i waist time on it.
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If you are doing a dome, the metal fence posts with crimped ends and bolted together is really the best way. Crazy cheap, simple to build, just measured pipe lengths and proper assembly. Use galvanized poles for a green house. It’s been a million years but, simple plans are on the web. They are super strong and if you secure them to the ground and do the cover right it will survive severe storms. Like, top of Humboldt hills, 30 foot diameter getting blasted by rain, winds and hills.
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This was cheaper than parts and free shipping. Seems like a scam but they take paypal so we will see
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3/4” tubing is tiny, we used 2 1/2” to 4” fence posts usually.
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Yeah all the 30$ sofas make this site seem like a scam... Site is brand new (2 weeks old) I would be careful entering my Ppal info...
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A very general explanation:
https://www.instructables.com/Make-a-Geodesic-Dome-From-Steel-Tubing/
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Fwiw I listened to a podcast that talked about how geodesic domes are actually kinda crappy and leak.
Good info. I am in the mountains at 8100ft so i need somthing that will deal well with wind and snowloads.
My dome in 4a at 4400 feet has withstood 10+ feet of snow in a winter, sheds like husky in the summer, and CRANKS when the sun is out in the winter. Easily 75F+ on 30F when the morning started out at 0F or below. Domes are incredible. Absolutely insane. Mine is modeled after the products from Growing Spaces out of CO.
BTW if I could make one (two?) national laws here in the US it would be that everyone must had a garden and anyone who gets a hard frost has to have a geodome greenhouse.
Just get a normal greenhouse like a normal person haha
Ahh to easy
You are my kind of person haha. Good luck