connecting a battery would just short out the battery, either the pole has such a high resistance that it gets hot, or the battery destroys itself. either way its probably gonna end in a fire.
a car battery (lead acid) may also just boil until explosion, resulting in acid being sprayed everywhere.
To prevent lead acid getting sprayed everywhere, I would suggest the use of a lithium battery instead
so just a house fire then
I like how none of these comments involve talking to the neighbor and asking them to fix it.
Next step up would be ask the landlord to fix it.
Hello I have problem
Have you considered premeditated murder?
They put a stripper pole in… awesome.
They just used too big of screws.
5 min convo
Pretty much never should have screwed anything into the subfloor, regardless of screws long enough to go through the flooring. That’s entirely wrong. If it were screwed into the joists, or blocking between joists, this could not have happened
When was the last time you ever asked or insisted your neighbors to fix anything? Especially neighbors with a stripper pole?
You have no idea how many drugs those people might be on or how many visitors/pimps might carry guns…
Tell ya what, the proper way would be to just skip that step and report it to the landlord, after you conveniently didn’t see it and stepped on one or more of those pointy screws.
They’ll have to get that shit fixed real quick, while your downstairs neighbors will not only have to pay for the damages, but also your medical bills, plus also likely face eviction.
I’ll agree that just reporting it to the landlord is the best course of action.
The rest of your comment is ignorant. You talk as if anybody who installs a pole in their house is a drug addict or is pimped out. Then you suggest purposefully injuring yourself over something the installer likely isn’t even aware is causing an issue just so they can be financially impacted and evicted.
Maybe people don’t talk to their neighbours about living problems because of shitty hostile neighbours with ideas like yours?
Maybe you never experienced a ‘friend’s’ home with young children and a stripper pole in the living room, and a full fledged liquor bar in their kitchen.
I really don’t need other people to tell what to expect from a stripper pole, as that’s not even the only place I’ve seen such shit.
Anyways, thanks for your inexperienced advice. I’d rather those sort of people be far away from me.
I avoided the Epstein files ya know…
Pole dancing actually requires an incredible level of athleticism, and as such, is a pretty fun way to get in shape. Some people who install a stripper pole in their home will no doubt be the kind of people you describe, but that’s not the only kind of person who might install a pole at home.
I know a couple of people who do pole dancing as a sport and have a pole installed in their home. They’re both people who seem like archetypical examples of people who have their shit together. For these people, installing a pole in their home is analogous to a weightlifter purchasing a squat rack so they can lift at home — basically just a way to practice without having to travel.
I’m not trying to suggest that your caution is unwarranted — if I were the person in the OP, I would feel pretty anxious about knocking on their door about the problem, because it’d feel like a bit of a coin-flip: are they going to be the kind of person who has a full fledged liquor bar in their kitchen, or someone who engages pole-sport as a productive way to stay fit? Because one of those people would likely be much less easy to work through issues with.
I guess my goal in writing this is to convince you that there are at least some people who install a pole in their home who are nothing like the archetype you’re envisioning. I’m not suggesting that they are the majority — I have no idea what the relative prevalence of these different archetypes are. However, they do exist.
Battery bad… 120v ac good. Just one wire in the hot side touch one screw. Put it on a random timer, too , this way when they say it’s shocking it everyone else will think they crazy.
Decent way to end up with a manslaughter charge
I’ve been popped by 120 volt a few times.
It hurts like a motherfucker, but should throw a breaker or GFI before it kills.
That’s only if it’s on a GFI. The resistance to Earth for a typical human is well below the “boy this space heater sure is drawing a lot of power” line that a breaker detects.
Use a Dremel tool to cut the pointy ends flat, then cut a slot in the flattened ends. Now you can simply unscrew the screws with a flat head screwdriver.
Hey, since they already fucked up your floor anyways, what they gonna do, bitch and cuss and then end up having to pay for repairs to the damages?
The poles running through the floor would upset the electrical circuit, and the battery would explode. It’s best to have a clear path through instead of risking a fire.
Cut them off with an angle grinder and go downstairs with a handful of ones.
Ugh I want to “well, ackshually” this so badly…
You may as well, now.
Please do. I don’t know what’s wrong with it
Edit: thanks folks! I feel like an idiot because that’s super obvious. :-)
the path of least resistance for the current would be down one connected bolt, then around the top plate, and up the other battery connected bolt, never down the pole, so the ceiling/floor gets heated up, possibly burn
note: those bolts must be supper long to go from ceiling to floor
12v is hardly anything. This is not a joke, go put your hands on both terminals of a car battery. You won’t feel a thing.
12 V is not enough to pass through unbroken skin, yes. But 12V has plenty to pass through some bolts and heat up enough to burn your house down.
You may be interested in StyroPyro’s video where he wired 100 car batteries in parallel. Still 12V, but huge current capacity.
still can spin a big truck and/or turn on incandescent bulbs with temperatures in the thousands of degrees
the internal resistance of lead-acid batteries is in the tens of mili-Ω, the circuit of 2 cables, 2 bolts and one plate/top of the pole would be in the low 100s mili-Ω. lets round up to 200mΩ, power = V•I = V^2/R = 12^2/0.2 = 720W, enough to heat up the top assembly of the pole, and smolder some wood
Email the landlord, with photos.
Backing them out about half way.
Yeah at best you’d start a fire at the roof. Wouldn’t do anything to the pole
Car batteries are high ampere, low voltage. They wouldn’t feel a thing …
Actually considering all of those screws are connected together by the same (presumably metal) plate, this would just create a short circuit and heat up or even melt those screws and plate.
And the battery
It would start a fire from the wood long before the metal melts
Inform the landlord, it’s their problem. If that’s their own property then. I don’t know a police report or something and lots of evidence and civil claims court.
Plot twist: OP installed the thing in their ground floor and didn’t measure correctly; now they at least want to cash in on the internet fame.
how are the screws going through the upstairs floor what kind of apartment is that
An American, probably.
I was thinking an electric fence energizer.
It wouldn’t work because there’s no circuit.
If those are regular size flooring slats, the screws are impossibly large. I call fake.
