Expanding Foam

This is a pretty amazing link to a guy who did a remake of a mercedes using expanding foam to shape the body. Some ideas for the future…

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HexaCopter

Battery technology is here, and only a matter of time before this thing can be built for human travel

We Love Germans!

Bio Batteries: Nokia Cell phone that runs off Coke

New Bio Battery design by DAIZI ZHENG allows for sugar and enzymes to generate enough power to run a cell phone.  bi-product is water and Oxygen.  On a large scale this could provide for clean energy backup for electric.

Thanks to The Design Blog for posting this

See infrared light with theater gels – Make cheap nightvision glasses!

This could make some serious high tech mods on variety of things, get some superbright infrared bulbs and wear some cheap theater-gelled glasses to see the light.  AMAZING

How to Make Night Vision Glasses – Amazing videos are here

Ingenious CorkScrew Tube Snow Tractor

This is really amazing, assuredly because the large tubular drivers don’t sink in very high snow, and really skate across the top.  [Shared by BSchmoltz]

Armstead Snow Motors from Seeking Michigan on Vimeo.

Changing a VW belt in 5 seconds

Great little trick here, too bad no one drives these 1967 cars much anymore, too easy to fix!

[shared by dDalzell, thanks]

Mythbusters prove Golf-ball dimpled car gets better MPG

This is a long video to watch, but very well done, and proves if you somehow produced a dimpled shape on your car, it could improve your gas mileage (drag) by as much as 11% as quoted in the show.  Very cool

5th wheel for parallel parking – Brilliant

wonder if he has a hand crank to move that wheel, or an electric motor…

DEN Dat IS Fixed

[from http://thereifixedit.com/2009/06/11/epic-kludge-photo-mmmm-pringles/]

1987 Toyota Supra Head Gasket

1987 Toyota Supra non-turbo automatic, has serious combustion gases in the cooling system, prompting a lovely orange-rusty milkshake in the cooling passages.  Here’s the work today:

Supra

Pretty basic really, difficult parts being taking the starter out, gotta love those studs that have to be held on bot sides when removing the nuts, the prybar in the ring gear worked wonders on removing the crankshaft pulley bolt.  Had to head to the toolshop to get a 3-jaw to remove the pulley.  Head came off easy, though oil in the hex heads made a hydraulic pressue which prevented fully seating the socket, almost rounded off number 4 bolt on inital bolt break.  All head bolts look clean, number 12 was very low torqued for some reason, this car is 90K with everything stock, including the timing belt.

It’s a cool thing when you can prove that the head can come out with just pushing the fuel rail and the lower intake manifold aside, and just prying away the exhaust manifold.

Cleaning tomorrow, head gasket and timing belt on order, expected return to road:  next week!