Random Cool Tricks

Random cool workshop tricks.

 

As a teenager, I answered a small ad in the back of a magazine that for a quarter offered to tell me how to stuff envelopes and get paid 25 cents for each one. I sent them my quarter and got a note back in the self-addressed stamped envelope I had included. It read: PUT YOUR OWN AD IN A MAGAZINE. True story.

 

I wonder if an untrained athlete could use their own goofy looking (but within the rules) technique and throw the hammer farther?

Before I was taught to hold a golf club I had a Happy Gilmore style swing and could drive a golf ball out of sight. I could never clobber a ball like that after I was taught the "correct" way.

Same with batting. I hold the bat with my hands reversed. Never had a problem with my swing until it was "corrected."

I guess I'm fortunate that nobody ever taught me I held a hockey stick "wrong." Like most right handed hockey players I'm "cross-handed."

 

Buff / Neck gaiter wearing methods.





I have several of these in different colours and patterns...apart from using the fabric as a neck gaiter they have several other field expedient uses also. Many neck gaiters are made of polyester...which may have health issues...go merino wool or other natural fabrics.

 

Like Mr Fosbury?


I was able to catch Mr. Fosbury at a track meet at the University of Arizona (Tucson) just as he started breaking records.
Very innovative for the time.

 

Took me a minute to figure out what we was doing there ,, but I got it ,,

 

Adjustable spanner hack.

 

A minute is too long to avoid a trip to oblivion...

Am reading a book on boobytrapping titled 'Malice Aforethought'



It is very interesting reading.

https://www.bits.de/NRANEU/others/amd-us-archive/FM5-31(65).pdf
TC 5-31 - VC Boobytraps : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
https://tgrm.foxed.ca/boobytraps/tbrm 1.pdf
https://www.marines.mil/Portals/1/Publications/FM 20-32 W CH 1-4.pdf
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB410/docs/Tactical Site Exploitation.pdf

 

Yes sir ,, a minute could be about 55 seconds to long ,,, but I'm not the type of person those deterrents were meant for.

I will look into reading recommendations there ,,I actually have the 1st 2 books in your list ,,thanks for the links to the others.

 

The trap layer is often using fairly predictable human behaviour to sucker their victims into taking the bait.

I was funnin' you at your expense. Mea culpa.

 

1 of my Vietnam Era uncles was in the Marine Corps around 67-69 ,,, in the early 70s ,, 4-5 of us would go squirrel and rabbit hunting in the early mornings or late afternoons. He always stressed to watch where you put your feet while in the woods . He would take some of them old camera flash bulbs and set booby traps on the trails in the woods ,, that's a lesson that stuck with me since then ,, I always try to be aware of everything around me,,

 

Broom / mop wall bracket

https://youtube.com/shorts/Xr7F4v4Y5Cs?si=oz_AwvJde52HrCdM

 

No more claws!

Legs doesn't like to take medication. He will tear you apart if you try to hold him and give him a dose of liquid medication.

The trick is to stuff him down a pant leg. When his head pops out I wrap the cuff around and he can't get a claw into me. This makes the process so easy that he relaxes and will let me cuddle him after he gets his dose.

 

To maintain a pantry like this you must stock it with stuff you eat. If you lose your taste for a vegetable or something it has to be taken out of rotation before the expiration date has passed by too much.

 

Food burn out is real. People have opted to starve to death rather than eat things they don't want.

I have spent lots of money on powdered peanut butter and lots of freeze dried fruits to help transition picky children and adults in fear of this problem.

 

I seem to remember construction like that aboard Camp Geiger. Twice I had a headquarters building at the end of the company area that looked like that. It had a double set of stairs that came down to the parade deck. There was no screwing around within sight of "The Muffin" or you'd get a call to report to the First Sergeant. I always suspected they used binoculars often.

Looks precarious, but it's probably under far less strain than the water tower it resembles.

 

LOL

No shit. Aak anyone staring at a Tuna a la cat puke as breakfast for the zillionth time....I started packing oatmeal and dried fruit for field rations when out playing with the Big Army. Something about Zoomies and Army Chow that don't mix well....