Plans for Wierd Stuff

[bitingmidge]

No, I'm not talking about what Tikki is going to do with those little rubber rings, or any of Zeds nocturnal habits, I mean things like the submarine plans posted on another thread: http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/showthread.php?p=166687#post166687

The web is full of fascinating people building fascinating things, like the guy in NZ with the "Build your own cruise missile for less than $5,000) http://www.interestingprojects.com/cruisemissile/

Or how about building a 1/5 scale Sherman Tank for the young 'uns? http://www.gizmology.net/tanks.htm

No? Well how about a backyard monorail with plywood box beam tracks?? http://www.monorails.org/tMspages/Niles.html

I can't believe I'm the only one that has a collection of links to this stuff, and figured it was time we shared a few more:

What else is out there??

Has Svensons.com gone??

Cheers,

P :cool:

[Ashore]

How to build a Dr Who Dalek


http://www.daleklinks.co.uk/category.asp?CategoryID=1&CategoryName=Build+a+Dalek
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[Sturdee]

What else is out there??

P :cool:

Years ago when my daughter was performing in Whitehorse Showtime, a yearly theatre production of the local guides and scouts, I build a Tardis for the show out of which 50 scouts came forth singing and dancing dressed as guides. It had 2 doors, the secret one was hidden from the hall. :D


Peter.

[Ianab]

Hows about a small scale catapult. :cool:

http://www.tasigh.org/ingenium/small.html

This is the one we built, made out of Bluegum (strongest wood I had) and with an old electrical transformer as a weight. (2.5kg instead of 1.5 :D )
The class science project was to build a machine to throw a golf ball the longest distance. Size limit (wisely) was it had to fit on an A4 piece of paper. This got 12m with a bit of tuning :cool:

[echnidna]

I can't believe I'm the only one that has a collection of links to this stuff, and figured it was time we shared a few more:

What else is out there??

Has Svensons.com gone??

Cheers,

P :cool:
Isn't there an incredible variety of things "n" stuff available

I just found this on Svensons, a little old but..... here (http://www.svensons.com/HumorousEmails/Bill_MONICA1.JPG)

[Zed]

Hows about a small scale catapult. :cool:

http://www.tasigh.org/ingenium/small.html

This is the one we built, made out of Bluegum (strongest wood I had) and with an old electrical transformer as a weight. (2.5kg instead of 1.5 :D )
The class science project was to build a machine to throw a golf ball the longest distance. Size limit (wisely) was it had to fit on an A4 piece of paper. This got 12m with a bit of tuning :cool:


I think thats a trebuchet, not a catapult.

[Ianab]

Zed..

You are correct..
Just a lot of people dont know what a Trebuchet is... :rolleyes:

I think catapult is a general term commonly used for a variety of hurling machines, but maybe we can educate people :)

If not the MK II will bombard them into submission.

Cheers

Ian

[Cliff Rogers]

Hoot! OK, lets go..... check out this page full of links to home made jet engines & other neat stuff like a Jet Powered Barstool.....

http://www.aardvark.co.nz/pjet/links.htm

While you are there, check out the things that the site owner makes.... :eek:

I'll be back shortly with more. :D

[Cliff Rogers]

& I didn't tell you this but if you do a google on TBBOM then.... I didn't tell you, OK? :rolleyes:

[Cliff Rogers]

Forgot about this one....

It's a Jet Powered Beer Cooler. :cool:
http://www.asciimation.co.nz/beer/

[Cliff Rogers]

I can see some sort of a theme happening here. ;)

http://www.barstoolracing.net/Barstools.htm

[Tikki]

Midge, guys ... hope this makes up for my sick jokes ;) :p

http://members.toast.net/saddletrout/attic.html

There's even one for Cliff's mozzie problem :p

Cheers
Tikki :)

[Cliff Rogers]

OK, change of theme, how about a time machine? :confused:

http://colemanzone.com/Time_Machine_Project/project.htm

[bitingmidge]

Suicide machine???
http://www.rqriley.com/

[MajorPanic]

After playing with the real thing for a couple of years everything else pales.......... :p

http://www.suurland-media.com/blueprints/tracked/leopard-ii.gif

[gatiep]

Hoot! OK, lets go..... check out this page full of links to home made jet engines & other neat stuff like a Jet Powered Barstool.....

http://www.aardvark.co.nz/pjet/links.htm

While you are there, check out the things that the site owner makes.... :eek:

I'll be back shortly with more. :D

Havn't got a webpage on it, but check out my avatar ( and some posts on this BB ) for my jet turbine.

Cya

[Grunt]

Plans for Wierd Stuff

I think Al was an accident rather than planned.

:D:D

[bitingmidge]

Then of course there's Power Tool Drag Racing:
http://www.powertooldragraces.com/
http://www.swapmeetdave.com/Humor/Workshop/PTDR.htm
http://laughingsquid.com/pix/2003_05/power_tool_drag_races/index.html

Blown Big-Block Belt Sanders . . . Nitro Burning Funny-Saws . . . Wheel Standin' Weed Wackers . . .

It's racing . . . racing . . . racing . . . Sunday . . . Sunday . . . Sunday . . . at The Shipyard . . . Shipyard . . . Shipyard . . .

Sunday, May 11th, Chopped Chainsaws and Supercharged Speed Wrenches will go head-to-head down 50 feet of two-lane drag strip at The Shipyard International Speedway. From super stock off-the-shelf machines, to full tilt multi-motor mooooooonnnstrosities, it will be capacitor blowing, carbide tooth shrapnel mayhem brought to you by, well, *you*- the finest redneck fabricators (a.k.a. machine "artists") in the Bay Area. Participants and spectators alike will thrill to the speed and smells as Black and Decker, Porter Cable, De Walt and Milwaukee battle it out for supremacy and $2,000* in cold hard cash.

[Ashore]

Midge, guys ... hope this makes up for my sick jokes ;) :p

http://members.toast.net/saddletrout/attic.html

There's even one for Cliff's mozzie problem :p

Cheers
Tikki :)Are you Sure your in the right forum


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[vsquizz]

Ok Ok ... I give in..here it is

weirdpancakes (http://www.weird-wi.com/aliens/vallee.htm)

evenweirderpancakes (http://ufos.about.com/library/weekly/aa082399.htm)


Cheers

[vsquizz]

and while you have your head on the block!




And Hector reckons he might’ve come up with a candidate: "What about midges? They’re millions of them, I’ll never have to work again."

Although popular opinion commonly regards midges as a bitey bastarding waste of space, the truth is more complex as Professor Beaker of Aberdeen’s School of Wee Bitey Bastard Studies now explains: "Midges are vital to the ecology of places like North Uist. They perform a vital function in giving tourists something else to complain about apart from the weather, the price of petrol and the fact that the locals don’t obligingly act like those endearingly mentally challenged yokels who weekly feature in Monarch of The Bloody Glen."

We contacted those frankly terminally weird, scratchy jumper wearing, asocial psychopaths at SNH for comment, but they’d all f*cked off home to Surrey for the weekend.

:D :cool:

Cheers

[Cliff Rogers]

Ooooo.... I think Squizzy wins the 'weird' award. :D

[Cliff Rogers]

Then of course there's Power Tool Drag Racing:....



Yeap, I like this one..... (not sure why)

http://laughingsquid.com/pix/2003_05/power_tool_drag_races/image/img_5612.jpg

[vsquizz]

There has also been some developments in the world of alfoil helmets:

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/000609.html

Cheers

[vsquizz]

And whilst we are clowning around and the thread did call for plans:

MidgeTrapPlan (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/2931910.stm)

Cheers

[zenwood]

Hows about a small scale catapult. :cool:

http://www.tasigh.org/ingenium/small.html

This is the one we built, made out of Bluegum (strongest wood I had) and with an old electrical transformer as a weight. (2.5kg instead of 1.5 :D )
The class science project was to build a machine to throw a golf ball the longest distance. Size limit (wisely) was it had to fit on an A4 piece of paper. This got 12m with a bit of tuning :cool:
Hey: that's not wierd, it's a trebuchet. It was one of my first WW projects. Could never get the sling arrangement worked out. Could only throw a marble 5 m or so. Yours is better, with the free swinging weight and all. Mine only had some sheet lead wrapped around the end.

[zenwood]

Try these:

http://www.rube-goldberg.com/html/gallery.htm

Or these:

http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/exhibitions/heathrobinson/

For some actual constructions:

http://www.mech.mcmaster.ca/~nyet/emett/

The Honda Cog video has become a modern classic:

http://www.videoclipstream.com/akamai/h-l/honda/

But this pales in comparison to the half-hour movie "The Way Things Go":

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005UW7W/ref=pd_sxp_f/002-0414048-2914439?v=glance&s=dvd

[Ashore]

Zenwood you spend way... to much time on the computer
Great sites though thankshttp://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/images/icons/icon7.gifhttp://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/images/icons/icon14.gif


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