Chemical Woodburning
Don’t have a woodburning iron? Use chemicals and a stamp to burn your mark!
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Cable Dyeing
If you want an extension cord, power cord, or other plastic-insulated cable in an unusual color, and you can find one in white, there’s a good chance you can dye it to suit your preference using this technique. Turns out many cables are sheathed with PVC, and will take the same oil-based stains as PVC […]
Harvesting Chemicals from a Battery
This tutorial shows how to take apart a spent zinc-carbon dry cell of the common household type. Besides making for an interesting object lesson in electrochemistry, taking apart a spent D-cell, for instance, allows you to salvage many materials which can be of use to amateur chemists–materials which would otherwise probably end up in a […]
