Something new in the Dome this fall

[FOTY]

Re: Something new in the Dome this fall

If they pay $200,000 for painting those seats I would be scratching my head. What a joke. 16,300 some seats right? Your telling me that it would cost over 12 dollars a seat to simply paint them? Come on...

Not a surprise here. Considering the labor involved to remove and reinstall the seatbacks, the cost to move them to the facility to paint (doubtful that it would be done onsite - UNI doesn't have a structure with proper venting), and the material (higher cost to paint metal as opposed to wood), $200 sounds reasonable. Also, don't forget that this is government work.....

I say get student employees to remove/reinstall the seatbacks and transport them (if our union contracts allow it) to cut down on cost.

Did the $200k include a new score board, or was that a seperate cost?

Just my opinion from the yellow seats.....

[Cannic88]

Re: Something new in the Dome this fall

Not a surprise here. Considering the labor involved to remove and reinstall the seatbacks, the cost to move them to the facility to paint (doubtful that it would be done onsite - UNI doesn't have a structure with proper venting), and the material (higher cost to paint metal as opposed to wood), $200 sounds reasonable. Also, don't forget that this is government work.....

I say get student employees to remove/reinstall the seatbacks and transport them (if our union contracts allow it) to cut down on cost.

Did the $200k include a new score board, or was that a seperate cost?

Just my opinion from the yellow seats.....

Scoreboards were separate costs, i haven't heard of any quotes for scoreboards

[JayJ79]

Re: Something new in the Dome this fall

could always go with the NDSU method.....
keep the lighting so frickin low that no one can notice the seat colors.

[TH1974]

Re: Something new in the Dome this fall

I'd just unscrew the backs, take them all out to the practice fields to the west of the dome.. get a couple of student groups, a couple crates of Krylon in Black, Purple, and Gold. Done dang deal. Heck, if you gave Krylon a advertising space in the dome for 2 years, they might even donate the paint.

That sounds like a recipe for disaster.

[Mountain Panther]

Re: Something new in the Dome this fall

Warner donates money to academics just not athletics. Even though Warner is not a big fan of UNI, UNI should still honor him in a way and Warner should come back and accept the honor for the fans if nothing else.

That was a joke, dingus.

[FOTY]

Re: Something new in the Dome this fall

I'd just unscrew the backs, take them all out to the practice fields to the west of the dome.. get a couple of student groups, a couple crates of Krylon in Black, Purple, and Gold. Done dang deal. Heck, if you gave Krylon a advertising space in the dome for 2 years, they might even donate the paint.

If only it were that easy.....
1. I do not believe that it would be as simple as unscrewing the seatbacks (I'll have to look on Saturday).
2. That type of painting is not something you want to do outside, especially with the quantity of items to be painted.
3. We would really regret not getting it done professionally. I'm not talking we'd regret it in 5 years, we'd regret it almost immediately.

I am a very thrifty individual, but I have enough knowledge to know when trying to save a few dimes today will cost us dollars later on.


Now, back to whats important.... is it Saturday yet?

[TH1974]

Re: Something new in the Dome this fall

If only it were that easy.....
1. I do not believe that it would be as simple as unscrewing the seatbacks (I'll have to look on Saturday).
2. That type of painting is not something you want to do outside, especially with the quantity of items to be painted.
3. We would really regret not getting it done professionally. I'm not talking we'd regret it in 5 years, we'd regret it almost immediately.

I am a very thrifty individual, but I have enough knowledge to know when trying to save a few dimes today will cost us dollars later on.

That.
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[Panther-Sheik]

Re: Something new in the Dome this fall

I'd just unscrew the backs, take them all out to the practice fields to the west of the dome.. get a couple of student groups, a couple crates of Krylon in Black, Purple, and Gold. Done dang deal. Heck, if you gave Krylon a advertising space in the dome for 2 years, they might even donate the paint.

Yeah, what could possibly go wrong? The old saying, "you get what you pay for" is on a loop in my head.

[run&blade]

Re: Something new in the Dome this fall

Paint the current seat backs and I would be willing to bet $100 the paint starts flaking off right away.

I could be wrong but I think stuff like that needs to be charged with static electricty to get the paint to stick well.

(use to work in a blow molding factory and they would send items through a machine that looked like a lightning bolt machine to charge them before they applied paint.

[TravelingPanther]

Re: Something new in the Dome this fall

Warner donates money to academics just not athletics. Even though Warner is not a big fan of UNI, UNI should still honor him in a way and Warner should come back and accept the honor for the fans if nothing else.

I believe this is wrong. IIRC, Warner provides a football scholarship.

[Cannic88]

Re: Something new in the Dome this fall

I believe this is wrong. IIRC, Warner provides a football scholarship.

did not know that

[UNI83]

Re: Something new in the Dome this fall

There is one on the other side as well that says "Welcome to the UNIDome"

I have a feeling that they were put in due to ADA regulations and not having gaps like that that kids could fall through...like what happened at the duals this past winter when a kid fell through there and got hurt when he landed on the floor. There are some ADA standards about spaces on railings like we have.

[06panther10]

Re: Something new in the Dome this fall

Bump for another small addition to the Dome this year, on the North concourse. Very cool.

[achrist70]

Re: Something new in the Dome this fall

What the Dome needs is two new scoreboards.

[JayJ79]

Re: Something new in the Dome this fall

What the Dome needs is two new scoreboards.

new scoreboards would be nice.
but hey, as long as the current ones show the vitals (score, game clock, quarter, TOL, down/distance/position), I can live with it.