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Perpetual Slinky Machine

Guy has a lot of free time.

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15 Comments on Perpetual Slinky Machine

  1. There’s nothing perpetual when it comes to slinkys. The very nature of how they work makes accurate repeatability over long times impossible. From my experience anyhow, and I spent a long time as a kid playing with them. But he did good.

  2. I made a device like this for my outdoor shooting range. It is an elevated conveyor belt. It is set below the ground and the top of the belt brings items to the top to shoot at. Watermelons, toy trucks, glass bottles. You have 6 seconds to shoot the target on high speed, 25 seconds on low. Or it goes around again.
    I have a wife who enjoys shooting crap as much as I do.
    It can also be set level with the ground. That would give you 10 moving targets to shoot all at once.

  3. I’ve been watching Marhias for years, he gets into making stuff with basically dimensional lumber, the shit you find at Home Depot. Some of it is interesting but mostly tedious, but that’s woodworking, once you have this jigs set up it isn’t all bad.

    Check out Jimmy Diresta, Frank Horwath and a few others recommended by these for others if you’re into building stuff. Great editing and a lot of cool ideas and tips.

  4. Following “old_oaks” comments, Wandel has made some amazing machines out of common lumber. He is a brilliant, self depreciating woodwork who doesn’t mind showing his mistakes while he works on a problem. Rather than wasting hours watching TV or browsing the internet , he is out in his shop creating.

    Sometime, when your fed up with the never ending political theater, explore his “Workshop Physics”, “Marble Machines” or his incredible Homemade Bandsaw that is being built by woodworkers around the world who cannot afford expensive, “store bought” machines.

    His site is http://woodgears.ca/

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