From Youtube, "What started as a simple desire for a better arc lighter got carried away and I ended up making the scariest device I've ever built. In this video I tested a plasma lighter and attempted... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 3 years 10 months 1 week ago • 55 views • 26:02search results matching tag: Melt down
Search took 0.001 seconds
- 1
Videos (6) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (177) |
In 1834, Parliament burned down, and the Standards of Measurement were melted or destroyed.
posted by Mordhaus 3 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 108 views • 5:05At the old hut site (the new one being temporarily cut off by flooding) I made lime mortar from the shells of rainforest snails by firing them in a kiln, slaking them in water, mixing them into lime putty.... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 3 months 1 week ago • 408 views • 7:08YouTube description: In Göttingen, Germany, there's a four-tonne steel ball that can be raised up a 14-metre tower -- and then dropped in less than two seconds, crashing back to earth. It makes tiny,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 4 months ago • 725 views • 3:34I built a natural draft furnace to test ideas about how hot a furnace could get without the use of bellows. Natural draft is the flow of air through a furnace due to rising hot air. The hot gasses in the... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 454 views • 5:46I made a brick mold that makes bricks 25 x 12.5 x 7.5 cm from wood. A log was split and mortise and tenon joints were carved using a stone chisel and sharp rocks. The mold was lashed together with cane... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 1,024 views • 10:47- 1