The Workermonkey

Wednesday, April 19, 2006

the gears are turning... 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 4/19/2006 03:51:00 PM

i took a stroll through Mcmaster-carr today (its a big book full of just about everything under the sun for industry) looking for "parts". i now have enough ideas to keep me going forever. valves, fans, blowers, tube, fittings, stainless, parts to be converted, big, small, powered, i found powered solenoid valves and a small enough fan to fit in the downstem. I might just make one you have to plug in and turn on. my next forary will be into double-chamber contraptions. this one will be clever. While driving up and back to VT this weekend i had plenty of time to sit and think about stainless steel construction of a unit. i actually have access to al the stuff i would ever need to make one here at work. i'm just not sure what kind of design i'd like to do. if anyone is interested i can show you some sketches of my initial ideas. i'd love to make one for myself, but could it be possible that someone, somewhere would pay 200-300$ for a well built SS304 unit? it would literally last forever and you could stick it in the oven or dishwasher to clean it.

so far the responses i've gotten from this stuff has been very positive. i spent last friday night with my sister and a bunch of her friends at a bar in burlington. Eventually the conversation moved towards the green delight and this one guy named, i kid you not, Sunshine said he had seen the pics i sent my sister of the previous projects. i told them all about what it was doing and they were all amazed. i left a demo bottle with amanda to show them and results are great. i sold another little one to a guy who was also amazed at it. maybe there is just a novelty factor here but i've also been told that i'm not the first one to try stuff like this, i'm just a little smarter about it. i'm glad my engineering degree is being put to good use. now all i need to do is justify hiring my first mexican and i'm in business. hiring your first mexican is how you know you're successful.

4 comments

Just tell me when you need biological knowledge. Hmmmm...where could be go with that (besides the obvious).

By  Brancibeer, at Wednesday, April 19, 2006 6:00:00 PM  

i definitely think you can find people to pay that much. and sunshine, god that's classic.

hahahaha you'll be able to find your mexican until they build that giant wall. is this reminiscent to anyone of the 1970s-80s idea of building the huge space bubble over the united states for protection (i think it was actually called "star wars" or something)?

By  josh, at Wednesday, April 19, 2006 6:13:00 PM  

i need to find a bacteria that will survive on the crap that builds up inside a bong. "self cleaning" is all i can think of. 100% natural.

i find it ironic the people we are trying to keep out are the same ones who would be building this wall.

there was a town in VT that passed a law/ordinace/something to build a dome over thier town. it was going to be marketed as "that town with a dome over it, the only one in america" kind of thing. controlled climate, A/C in the summer no snow, rain only when needed or on a schedual, no huricanes or disasterous weather patterns, water levels could be kept, a controled environment.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Wednesday, April 19, 2006 11:03:00 PM  

Self cleaning bacteria eh. Not my specialty, but i'll look into it. That reminds me of those self sustaining sealed globes with the little shrimp and plant locked inside. What a life.

By  Brancibeer, at Thursday, April 20, 2006 5:58:00 PM  

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