Currently I'm buliding a air chamber for testing airfoil.
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RJ Savoy
The first house my parents bought outright was a sizeable country mansion but turned out to be in a much worse state than anticipated. As a result, there was a huge stack of planks and other building materials around it for months, and in particular dozens of small, dense wooden tiles (about 20cm x 5cm x 1cm) left over from the flooring. My father also kept a fair set of tools.
I took to making wooden swords with them for my brother to fight with his friends. I used large planks for the blades and the tiles for hilts. The first ones would cut your palm after a minute, but I learned about weight and grip, and after buying some dedicated woodworking tools they started to resemble blockier versions of real weapons. I made swords with different hilts, daggers, a poleaxe, a halberd more than two metres long, and a very elegant curved knife that broke within minutes because I was cutting against the grain. It culminated in a sword with a baskethilt on three sides and a pommel, that a professional re-enactor commended for the balance. I also made a rough toy locomotive with turning wheels.
When we moved to Scotland I gave most of them to an amateur theatre company, and I don't know if they were ever used. A few are still at my parents' house, now an even bigger country mansion. Living in the suburbs I feel devoid of opportunities for handiwork... though the shed could do with some repair.
Stories don't tell us monsters exist; we knew that already. They show us that monsters can be trademarked and milked for years.
Dang I gotta admit that is very cool
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Woah, communism!
I made something I now call a "ham stack".
Basically, you take a piece of ham, and you put it into a bowl. You place some cheese (I used American) on top of the ham. Rinse and repeat until you have a stack of it. Put it into the microwave for 30ish seconds, and voila! Calories in a dish!
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When I was a lad I learned I could throw a stone a hell of a lot further if I put it in a long tube, let it fall to the bottom, and made a motion like I was using a club with it to smash things. I learned later on in life that I'd made something similar to the atlatl.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spear-thrower
It worked somewhat similarly, and the stone went off downrange like a bat out of hell
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< — See my avatar pic. Things were slow at work (I'm a machinist in the maintenance department at a foundry) so I began crafting war-hammers, flails, and other medieval style weapons out of junk I found in the scrap bin.
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This is a simple conversation about your craziest life hacks and inventions. Could have been a homemade helicopter,a cat tower out of random stuff. Oh whatever I think you got the idea.
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