Derby Talk - View topic - True Steering Design Cubmobile. Here is the CAD model, we found out Tuesday we have 1-1/2 weeks to design and build rather than 8 (yikes!).
They moved our District race up by 6 weeks on us, gave us a very late notice (better than week of the race I guess). I have to add a few more bolts in the CAD model, but the basics are outlined in the following pics (see below). We are also adding some seat side-bolster padding, and have a '85 Celica passenger-front seat-shoulder belt assy in the garage now (paid $9 for it)... and the roll-bar/push-bar.I think this will be one of the most controllabel and safest cars yet from what I've seen of Cubmobiles...
I hope. Too bad we are short on time this year... DIY: Fire Starters. This is a simple and cheap gift idea for anyone with a fire place or outdoor fire pit.
I made a bunch of these for the people I know with fireplaces. I was nervous since I don't have a fireplace to test them out, I didn't know if they would work until Christmas Eve! And yes, they do work! They are very easy to make and also very quick to make a bunch of them. All you need is: News paper Lint from your dryer Hemp Pine cones Optional: Dried herbs (I used dried orange peel & whole cloves) Take one full sheet of news paper and on one corner add 2 pine cones. Sprinkle on a teaspoon of the dried herbs (unless you are opting out of the herbs) Now you are going to burrito wrap the pine cones. 1. 2. 3. 4. 6.
Now, to help hold everything in, take a half sheet of news paper and roll the first package up again. Twist the ends and secure with a piece of hemp. Then, when you are ready for a fire, stack your logs and place this somewhere in between the logs. Knight's Trebuchet - a simple, quick, Scout trebuchet. I designed this simple trebuchet as a more stable, robust small trebuchet.
The two opposite side frames are braced against each other so it doesn't need guy lines, which is the main problem with the older trebuchet design on Ropes and Poles. The Troop Scouters of the recent Gauteng Scout Wood Badge course at Arrowe Park tested it out and verified that it works (two of the patrols promptly ganged up on the third to send a shower of over-ripe tomatoes across to them). The theme of the Wood Badge weekend was 'the Knights of Gauteng' so this is the Knight's Trebuchet.
Two patrols used a traction rope as per the drawing below, while the third patrol used a rubber tube, pictured above. All three worked successfully. Here are the sequence drawings for assembling this trebuchet: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. This trebuchet was tested with and without a sling. The SketchUp model is available for download HERE. Camping Classic - Waterproofing Matches. This will expose both my technology geek side and my backpacking nerd side in one blog post.
So, just the other day, I was reading my self-made eBook version of Horace Kephart’s classic, “Camping and Woodcraft“, on my iPod Touch when I came across a beautiful little nugget of camping wisdom explaining how to weather-proof matches using shellac and thought I would not only give it a try myself, but share my results with you all. Here’s the full paragraph that I am referring to: Matchbox. — Do not omit a waterproof matchbox, of such pattern as has a cover that cannot drop off. I prefer a flat one. It can be opened with one hand. I didn’t particularly like the way Horace dipped the matches and then laid them flat on newspaper because it seemed to me that one side would lose a lot of the shellac coating.
Making Denatured Alcohol User Friendly. Plastic Soda Bottle Lid Capsule. A couple of months ago I stumbled upon a discussion board that talked about and showed a small, lightweight reusable container made out of the necks and lids of two plastic soda bottles.
I haven’t been able to find that same post ever since, but remember enough about it to want to give it a shot for myself. How to Make a Plastic Soda Bottle Lid Capsule I started with two identical plastic soda bottles to make sure that they would match in size. I cut the necks of the bottles off using a small hacksaw making sure that I kept the large flange that would be used to glue the two necks together later. I used a vice to hold the bottles still while I cut through them. Once I had cut off the neck of each bottle I used a flat file to smooth down the rough saw marks and left over plastic. Once I had filed the rough edges down and made sure that the edges were level it looked like this (below). Here are the two sections of bottle necks ready to be glued together.
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