Subject: [Homestead] Home workshop tools, equipment, some distantly-related
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 15:14:35 -0700
Distantly related, but useful tools and products---the penalty you have
to pay for my disorganized mind. Some good moneymakers here though.
http://www.geocities.com/PicketFence/Garden/5461/ (homemade tools to
make lapstrake, woodstrip boats. No plans, just pictures, including
beautiful decked sailing canoe. These are rarities, bring thousands of
dollars when they come up for sale.)
http://www.stretcher.com/stories/970606a.cfm (kid stuff, play-dough and
bubblemaking recipies---latter great for a cheap, animated
attention-getter at flea markets and craft shows.)
http://www.armorama.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=404
(cam't repeat too often or too much about the utility of a homemade
vacuum-forming machine---the Armorama is tiny, larger two-stage
vacuum-pump and vacuum storage tank which I have posted in the past, are
more practical, more productive and more expensive---there are
occasional uses for a tiny cheapy though)
http://www.stuartnye.com/about.htm (dammit, should have incorporated
this article on Depression-Era jwwelrymaking in the previous post. If
you can make it in a home business during the Depression, you can make
it anytime, anywhere---six mile wide comet permitting)
http://www.righthook.com/fahome.html (if you're really pissed about Big
Brother and want to keep a low profile until D-Day, books on making your
own automatic weapons and gunpowder)
http://www.uniqueprojects.com/projects/paper/paper.htm (be a
papermaker, you are surrounded by free-for-the-gathering papermaking
supplies---the most beautiful paper is homemade and any thickness,
texture, color you choose+
http://www.sare.org/publications/core_info.htm (SARE data on improving
your soil, your garden, fields, farm income, pest-control, composting,,
the cultivation equipment available for the farmer, Creamline for the
small private-consumption or small commercial dairy. Try it, you'll
like it.)
http://pennswoods.net/~zigbug/ (for a lot of homemade woodlot products,
you've GOT to have a bandsaw, whether it is homemade or a WodMizer with
all the bells and whistles, or the take-it-to-the-log
I've had the Rake bandsaw plans for years---now vefy much improved and
more expensive at $1200 for materials---his first version cost $600.
http://nv.essortment.com/claytileshandm_rzfz.htm (homemade baked clay
tiles, stroll into Architects office with samples, into Interior
Designers studios with a picture-tile wall decoration under your
arm---my youngest boy with a large regional floor and wall-covering
business would be interested.)
http://www.flyrockets.com/websites.asp (I dunno, I posted plans and
prices on a %5000 cruise missile which is the equivalent of any
medium-range U.S. Military cruise-missile---the free plans are no longer
posted on the designers website, bu available for a reasonable fee.
Heres some stuff on less ambitios rocketry)
http://www.torotrak.com/variator.html (if ou run a speed-dependent
drive in your small factory, you will have to drive it with a variator.
You can machine a variator, but you won't save any money,these are
pretty cheap. Forgot the brand, but I used to buy them for my factories
as low as $17.95)
http://www.gokartsupply.com/tcterms.htm Comet drive CVT used in
motor-scooters, as I remember Salsbury was the first, or at least one of
the first to do this.)
A CVT is used a lot in an air-to-air whole house heat exchanger, where
you want to fine-tune the the amount of air exhausted and bro brought in
for the correct number of turnovers across a twenty four hour
period---the flow volume depends on the cubic footage of the house)
Also used in stirring liquids where the viscosity changes, or it is
desirable to change the shear-rate of the blades---as in stirring papier
mache, papercrete, mixing paint etc.
[Homestead] Home workshop tools, equipment, some distantly-related,
Tvoivozhd, 09/29/2004