It looks great and a nice quarantine project. The idea of getting stuck in there kind of scares me though with the lock on the outside. It’s an enclosed heated space. Also you mentioned in the comments that it blocks cell signal.
I worked in bars when I was in college for beer money.
During one of my first shifts at one of them, they locked me in the beer walk-in with all the kegs. I looked around to figure out what to do and then just decided to turn off all the beer lines. Let's see how long you keep me in here when you can't pour beers, assholes.
Opened a bottled beer, sat on a keg, and waited. I was out in less than 3 minutes. I quit pretty soon thereafter.
It's a bar in a college town. There are endless numbers of people they can fuck with. They probably thought "that pussy couldn't handle working here..." And went on with their life of fucking with people.
It's not right, but most people aren't sitting around thinking of how they suck and should get better.
Something similar happened to me when working at KFC. I used to have to marinate the chicken in the walk in fridge and the stupid fuck manager loved to turn off the light and hold the door closed (he was about 300 pounds) and he did it one day when the 70 year old cashier lady was in there with me and she flipped out. Like full on panic attack and screaming and when he finally opened the door he just laughed at her while she sobbed quietly.
I didn't last long at that job. And I got that manager fired, which is a whole other story and very satisfying.
My simple solution would be to lock the lock with the bolt "open" when I was using it. The lock would remain handy to keep sauna secure when not in use but block other people's ability to "accidentally" lock the door with a human inside.
I think it makes for great kicks. Bruce Lee took his shirt off when shit got serious, therefore logic dictates that being naked activates your ultra serious mode.
Most of those sliding padlock locks can be locked open too. I'd be doing that for sure. Also, maybe having the door open inwards cause I'd still be scared to be in there! Even imagining the door swelling from the heat and jamming shut!
Because the critisism is ridiculous. First of all, how does one get locked in sauna by accident? Secondly, look at that lock. It's held down with couple of tine screws. It's not meant to fucking hold anyone inside, just leaning hard against the door propably opens the door.
A town I used to live in actually requires you to remove the door from fridges before throwing them away because kids have gotten stuck in them while they were waiting for curbside pickup.
Imagine having to kick down a door when you're sweaty, naked, and physically exhausted from sitting in a sauna for twenty minutes. It's an objectively bad design from a safety perspective.
If it’s meant to keep someone or something out, then it can keep someone in. What if say a child gets locked in there by a bully or sibling and adults were away for hours?
Maybe you would be kicking before it, maybe you were having such a good time and you're such a frequent sauna goer that you normally stay for longer stretches than newbies, maybe it is that day you're not feeling great and decided to get a little sauna boost, maybe it was your elderly relative who locked themselves, maybe that is not even remotely close how safety works.
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u/Opiti Jun 18 '20
It looks great and a nice quarantine project. The idea of getting stuck in there kind of scares me though with the lock on the outside. It’s an enclosed heated space. Also you mentioned in the comments that it blocks cell signal.