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Thanks.

You’re probably right but there’s several other metal posts so I dont want this one to be significantly different.

Thanks for your input on the angle brackets. That seems sensible, theyre not load bearing.

Thanks.

All great stuff.

Now you mention it, of course you’re correct that the rusted part can probably be cut off and replaced with a stirrup.

Fair enough. I’d be very concerned about mounting anything on the underside of the ceiling, because all the weight is pulling directly along the shaft of whatever fixing you use.

Can you elaborate on “weight loads on ceilings” ?

This post has kind of inspired me to follow up on my plan to make a storage area in the roof cavity over my garage.

Do you mean non-trafficable ceilings? My house is designed with timber ceiling joists around 450mm apart suspended from the A-frame roof.

I asked about it on some DIY sub a while back and the consensus was that it’s fine for some boxes of junk.

Obviously I share your and OPs concerns about overhead loads. I’m trying to figure out how comfortable I am with this.

There’s an open issue about this on github. It’s the remote API is only recognising the first word of your query.

This has been bugging me too.

The timeouts are because the engines are presenting captchas. There’s a work around whereby you use your instance as a proxy, navigate to that remote engine, and do the captcha.

These two issues are a real pain in the ass so while I do presently have a searxng instance I’ve been using qwant the last few weeks because I’m just over it.