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Tire Sandals: Innovative Footwear Made From Old Tires.

Tire Sandals: Innovative Footwear Made From Old Tires.
Make Your own Tire SandalsAdapted from Participating in Nature: Wilderness Survival and Primitive Living Skills I'm hard on shoes. It's not uncommon for me to go through half a dozen pairs of shoes, or more, each year. I maintain an active lifestyle, hiking, playing, camping, and working. Water wears out a shoe quicker than anything else. If I do not happen to dissolve my shoes in water, then I wear out the soles on gravel. Really, I have never been quite satisfied with conventional shoes, and it's not just because I wear them out so easily. While I am at it, I have other complaints too. I go barefoot as much as I can, but like most people, I have tender feet--because I don't go bare foot all the time. I may practice primitive camping, but I also have to face the modern realities of the clock. To solve that problem, I have tried over the years many marriages between buckskin and rubber to make lasting soles on my moccasins. The field tests of our sandals were quite exciting. Ernie Related:  Miscellaneous

Orgonite diy - make your own orgone generators Orgone Zappers and Hulda Clark Zappers This is the most important thing I have to tell you on this page.Many people on the internet and elsewhere are spending a lot of time and money to make you believe it is otherwise. Orgonite pouring session: Dr. Nyerenga from Malawi learns the ropes Orgonite always works, even if you think you have it all wrong The designs of the basic orgonite tools are very error tolerant. Baking orgonite is much easier than that! Making beautiful orgonite takes practice and is not that easy, but as much as we all love to make things beautiful, a rough and dirty orgonite TB will neutralise a cell phone tower (death force transmitter) just as well as a high gloss one with neatly arranged gemstone inlays. The easiest to start with: making orgonite TBs TBs or Tower Busters are the easiest to make. Waxing the form Shavings the way we like them Apart from the shavings and resin, the mandatory ingredient is quartz.You don’t have to use A-grade tips. Typical ingredients the way we make our TBs Top layer Start pouring

How to make a rocket with sugar and kitty litter Got some powdered sugar and kitty litter just lying around? Sure, there are some more practical uses for both of those things, but let's add some potassium nitrate to the mix and blow it all sky-high. [optional caption text here] Image: [name here]/Shutterstock There's a special place in YouTuber Grant Thompson aka the King of Random's heart for rockets made from innocuous, everyday objects. First he tried making a rocket out of pool noodles and F-class rocket motors, but those motors cost $17 each, which pretty much nudges it into serious hobby territory, and most of us aren't really ready to make that kind of commitment to the practice of blowing stuff up. But what if you could use some plain old powdered sugar and a little bit of potassium nitrate to create a homemade pyrotechnic mixture that can launch a rocket over 700 metres (2,300 feet) into the air?

How to Heat Your Room for 15 Cents a Day Wanting to cut costs on the energy bill, especially now that temperatures are dropping for the season? Economics may be one reason to seek more sustainable energy sources, but this inventive way to heat the house is also purely fascinating. Journalist, YouTuber, and boat owner Dylan Winter created his DIY heater using tea lights and placed inside a bread tin and covered with two ceramic flowerpots. This creative system uses the scientific principles of convection heat transfer and, according to Winter, can heat his home for around 8 hours a day. The tea lights are first put into a bread loaf tin and covered with a small upside-down flower pot. The hole in the top of the upside-down pot is covered with the metal casing leftover from one of the tea lights. This system works because the candles produce gases full of heated particles that are captured and channeled through the pots. One does not need a huge amount of money to invest in this economical heating method, either.

Building a Simple Kirlian Photography Device The Kirlian device we are building uses a HV transformer. It is battery powered, but don't let that lull you into a false sense of safety. The Kirlian device generates pulses of high voltage that can provide a nasty shock. Still an advantage of being battery powered is portability. In addition we will build a transparent electrode that allows one to use a standard camera (with bulb setting) to capture Kirlian images. The schematic is shown in Figure 2. Figure 2 If the photo batteries are not available you may want to try wiring 10 or more 9-volt batteries in series. The capacitors C1-C4 are wired in parallel as shown in Figure 2. The transformer T1 is a high voltage auto-transformer. Figure 3 The toggle switch SW1 is a single pole double throw "momentary" contact. The switch is important and must be wired correctly to obtain maximum benefit. To mount the switch to the board a metal battery clip (9-volt) is used, see parts list. Previous Page: Introduction | Next Page: Exposure Plate

Artisanal Pruno (Prison Wine) Food artistry was once solely the work of chefs stationed behind the burners and ovens of Michelin-rated restaurants in major metropolitan areas. As we grew more aware of what we put in our bodies, we started to eat better. Dining would no longer merely a means to sustain ourselves. It became an experience meant to be savored and our collective consciousness skewed towards sustainable, organic, and responsibly grown, raised, and farmed food. At a price, of course. As consumers, we would bear the brunt of the cost burden. The product of a newly minted upper middle class, foodie culture spawned a new breed of overpriced food. For those unfamiliar with pruno, a little history lesson: since time immemorial, alcohol has served as the cause of and solution to all of our problems. Using exotic fruit and organic ingredients to cater to their discerning palates: Artisanal Pruno. Disclaimer: PRUNO CAN KILL YOU.

50 Things You Should $top Buying & Start Making You might be realizing that most of the products out there that aren’t made organically or naturally contain a lot of toxic chemicals. Not only that, many of these products can be harmful to our environment in a number of ways. Making things yourself not only saves you money and helps the environment, but it lets you know where your products are coming from and exactly what’s in it. You can make anything from food items to personal care and cleaning products all in very simple ways. Remember: whenever you can, use organic foods and ingredients in recipes. 50 Things You Can Start Making Homemade Ketchup – This ketchup won’t break the bank, tastes better than the real deal and contains no added sugar – so it’s nutritionally good for the whole family. Homemade Mayonnaise – This is a great recipe for any mayonnaise lover out there wanting to make their own at home, it’s simple and easy and tastes better than the store bought versions.

Biogas System Absolutely FREE videos by Geoff Lawton, World Renowned Permaculture Teacher, Designer and Consultant. Geoff Lawton visits Permaculture Designer, Tom Kendall’s farm where his three cows supply enough cooking gas to suit a family of six people. Tom’s dairy is designed to capture all the manure (including human manure) and direct it to an underground chamber where methane gas is fermented. Excess manure is then directed to his vegetable garden or through his a reed bed filtration system. These free videos will only be available for a limited time, to get access to watch these videos right now, fill out your name and email in the form on the right. We will keep you updated via your email as we release the free video series. >“Geoff: Let’s see if we can head off the crisis rather than go through it. Over 7,500 comments and thousands of views “We’ve had a ton of people leave positive comments and questions.

DIY Smoker- How To Build A Smokehouse From Pallets for Less than $100 DIY Ready | DIY Projects | Crafts DIY Smoker- How To Build A Smokehouse From Pallets for Less than $100 4.35/5 (87.06%) 51 votes Yes, with a pile of old pallets, less than $100 and a bit of work, we built this really cool smokehouse. 3′ x 3′, it is big enough to smoke a whole animal, or at least a few big trays of meat plus some links of sausage. I love this project – It still amazes me what you can build with repurposed wood and how great it looks. Our considerations for DIY smoker plans were: size - it needed to be big enough to a lot of items at once and also smoke large itemscost- it needed to be as inexpensive as possible while still allowing you to smoke meat wellskill level required – it needed to be something you could do with basic woodworking knowledge I don’t know if you have ever smoked meat before, but it is a rewarding, yet time consuming task. Here are the supplies you need to get started and the instructions and video for this cool project: How to Build A Smokehouse: Tools You Will Need to Build A Smokehouse:

REUSE YOUR OLD LAPTOP BATTERY TO MAKE A POWER BANK Few months ago my Dell laptop battery did not work.Whenever I unplug it from main AC supply,the laptop switched off immediately.After few days of frustration, I replaced the battery and kept the dead one (as per my laptop message) for tinkering.I was curious what I would find inside it.Then I go through several blogs and forum to get some ideas.I got lot of things from Then I took apart the battery and charged them by using a good charger.By luck I found 4 batteries are in good condition. I used this battery to make a descent power bank.It really works fine for me.I thought I'd share the info to all.So that any one reuse it without throwing it in to the dust bin. In this tutorial I will show you, how to harvest the 18650 battery from any of the old laptop battery pack you might have. Most of the time, laptop battery packs go bad when just one or few cells in the pack are dead.

3 Homemade Ways to Purify Water Tess PenningtonActivist Post Water is the foundation of life and, as such, water preparedness is one of the most important aspects of being prepared. That said, many are not prepared for even 1 day of water rations. Moreover, there are many who feel that storing water is a waste of time; after all, they can simply use tap water or step outside and use the water left over from storms and floods. What they do not realize is that following a severe storm, hurricane or tornado, water is contaminated and should not be used for drinking. It is a Fact That Hospital Visits Increase Following a Short Term Emergency In fact, when short-term emergencies occur, there is an increased number of hospital visits and admissions from common diarrheal diseases, acute respiratory infections, dermatitis, and other causes. To avoid water-related illnesses, it is imperative to learn how to filter your water using materials available to you. 1. Materials You Will Need: Delivered by The Daily Sheeple.

Hidden Energy Inside Your Pocket Change Tess PenningtonActivist Post You never realize how dependent you are to the grid until the lights go out for a long period of time. Although many of us have batteries and flashlights safely stored for a rainy day, there may be a time during an extended emergency where you run out of your battery stash and have to improvise. Batteries were previously known as voltaic piles. You can make a simple battery similar to Volta’s using the humble penny. Coins can be converted into makeshift batteries that can drive up to 0.8 volts. (Makes 1 volt)6 pennies – pennies newer than 1982 are 98% zincsand paper or orbital sanderadhesive remover such as Goo-GoneCardboard piecesVinegarElectrical tapeZinc washers LEGALITIES: Some people have asked about the legality of treating pennies in this manner. Delivered by The Daily Sheeple. If you enjoy our work, please donate to keep our website going.

Build a cistern out of corrugated road culvert by Joe Mooney Using a corrugated road culvert as a cistern is an economical way to add to your water storage. Here is the finished tank with PVC pipe directing water from a gutter into the tank inlet. No matter where you live, the most important resource that a prepared homestead can have is access to stored water. It may be abundant or scarce, but you still have to be able to collect and store it somewhere. That's where tanks and cisterns come in. Wells are fantastic, but if you have no holding capacity, your access to water is 100% dependent on the pump and the electricity to run it. We happen to live in the Arizona desert and water is a huge issue with us. Frame was set and leveled with PVC pre-plumbed, rebar and remesh tied, and filler rocks added to save on concrete. Author using a boom hoist to lower the culvert into the "soupy" concrete mix Detail view of water spigot and valve. Recently, my wife and I were considering the option of adding more capacity to our rain system.

DIY Parts Tumbler and Polisher | Home, DIY & Stuff Cheap and ugly, but it does a great job! Home DIY parts tumbler for finishing CNC’ed aluminium parts, polishing and deburring. This is a home DIY parts tumbler and polisher which was made to prepare the surface of aluminium CNC machined parts prior to electrostatic powder coating. It also has many other home DIY workshop uses. It is a beast ugly machine which was made from JUNK, but it works brilliantly! CNC machining often leaves burrs and sharp edges on designs cut from aluminium, especially once the CNC machine cutter bits start to dull. The main reason for posting photos of this DIY project is to show that it isn’t always necessary to have expensive tools and equipment in the work shed to get excellent metal surface finishing results on DIY CNC machined aluminium parts. Tumbling and polishing makes a big difference to the final look of metal surfaces on DIY electrostatic powder coated aluminium parts. The DIY polypipe tumbling barrel, showing added polishing media lifters.

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