Year: 2006

From pallet to potrack

From pallet to potrack

Happy cricket writes – “…at work one fine morning, I was taking a gander at a drywall pallet, that had some mighty fine logs to it. I thought to myself, well golly, I could make something with that! Voila, one evening later, I had a simple potrack.” – Link. Related: HOW TO – DIY Hanging […]

Beating bombs into mufflers

Beating bombs into mufflers

Turning bombs into mufflers, Popular Science 1947 – “Practice air bombs, left over from the war, are being converted to a peacetime job. Air Forces trucks and autos in Germany urgently need mufflers, so the Bruck Air Ordnance Depot at Nuremberg is making them from surplus-bomb stocks. The project, started late in 1946, Has already […]

Homemade generator

Homemade generator

Check out this homebuilt generator over on Street Use… – “In theory if you spin an electric motor, it should “run backwards” and generate electricity. So this guy, Dan Meyer, in Minnesota built a small generator using an old gas engine and an old DC motor.” – Link. Related: Homemade generator – Link. Building a […]