Wood shims are thin, triangular blocks of wood used as spacers to make minor adjustments to the position of two adjacent objects. In window and door installation, they’re often used to make sure ...

A shim can be a thin, flat piece of material or it may be wedge shaped. It's wood, plastic or metal. But I've taken things apart and found shims of every conceivable material, including cardboard ...

While a thin wood shim is effective at silencing an isolated squeak at a specific spot, if you find a long gap running the length of a floor joist, it wouldn’t make sense to install a whole ...

A thin membrane made of porous wood may be able to fix that. In membrane distillation , salty water is pumped through a film, usually made of some sort of polymer … Close.

Shims are flat pieces of wood that can be anywhere from 6 to 10 inches long and have a taper. One end of a wood shim is normally about 1/16 inch thick while the other end is about 3/8 inch thick ...

This heart-stopping video of a truck trying to cross what appears to be a rickety wooden bridge might make you question everything you thought you knew about the laws of physics. More than that ...

Marrying traditional Japanese craft techniques and energy-efficient lighting technology, designer Ryosuke Fukusada creates an LED bulb wrapped in a thin wooden shell that, yep, glows.

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A jury on today found a 74-year-old pharmacist guilty of trying to kill his wife by forcing a wood shim into the throttle mechanism of her car.