From: nanowave (nanowave@shaw.ca)
Date: Mon Jun 09 2003 - 12:59:46 MDT
Seems that more and more often these days I stumble across the coolest stuff
while searching for something completely different. Here's an unlikely chain
of events which today led to your receiving this pointer to this interesting
article highlighting the new low-tech/high-tech rocketry paradigm.
So I'm kicking around in my workshop wondering if I might have the necessary
raw materials to throw together a q&d DIY cement mixer for a bunch of
concrete jobs I been planning to do around the yard.
...maybe those five gallon plastic buckets over there in the corner? ....
nope too small ... hmm, how 'bout that old washing machine drum over there
... if I only had another of those ... bolt the two flanges together ...
even got that nice round hole in the middle to load ... screw in some boards
as mix fins ... mount the whole thing on a 2x4 saw horse ... with some old
shopping cart wheels for the drum to spin on ... I think I've even got an
old motor somewhere over here ... HEY! wait a minute. surely someone else
has thought of this before ... maybe even published plans for it sketches
and all on the web ...bet I'll have myself a printed copy in under five
minutes...
...
google?
[yes my son?]
got anything on, say, 'homemade cement mixers'?
[perhaps, perhaps, but heyyyy, here's something that you might enjoy ...
and just three hits down the page!]
cool, well ... um ... ok, maybe I'll just read part of it...
...
...
...
...
[russell?]
yes google?
[what are you doing?]
sending it to my buds on extropians .. it's really quite interesting...
http://techlink.msu.montana.edu/articles/christiansciencemonitor.html
[and what about the patio stones and fence posts you were going to make
this morning?]
doh!
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