Innovative Ideas Mans Club

[yellow door 1]

Originally Posted by n-fish

Use dripping (animal fat) not vegetable oil this will improve your roast potatoes /vegies 300% to 10000% and get a nice crispy crust. If you are worried about your waist line maybe you should stick to kale, tofu, quinwaaarrr

Thanks for the tip. My English Grandma used to run a Bed and Breakfast. Her roasts and Yorkshire puddings were phenomenal. Her secret ingredient, in anything that tasted good, was dripping. I might have to rekindle the family tradition

[panger]

Animal fat makes everything taste better... dripping, lard, smaltz, duck fat I love them all

[yellow door 1]

"Snag-Magnet Lures"

[yellow door 1]

Decided to ditch the "Snag-Magnets" and just buy some crab lures.

Unweighted, they fall just like a natural - but they wont always ride hook side up.

So I got the scissors out and started chipping lead off a 1/16th to see what could be done.....

(I inadvertently created a stand up jig-head in the process, which will be used in other applications, but thats not what I was aiming for at the time)

[yellow door 1]

no matter how much lead I took off - I could get the exact horizontal stance I was after for slack lining crabs down a pylon -

The drag of the line, may keep the attitude I like but I wast sure if it would - so I kept searching for a solution that worked in my test bucket..

[yellow door 1]

I was trying to get away from the "Arse first" sink when it hit me.

I said to myself - Larry you're a bloody genius with a proven track record of turning dreams into reality. Plus you dont mind stealing office supplies

I borrowed a couple of staples and got to work.

Made some "light" and some "ultra lights"

[yellow door 1]

just stick the staple through the centre of the crab..

[yellow door 1]

Originally Posted by Ratbags

does that padlock secure the bench & vice or scare of would be offenders!

No end to your innovations Larry

Nah I have to shred alot of top secret design drawings so no one can copy my stuff. The lock is so noone can get into the bin and sticky tape them back together

The base of the portable vice wedges tightly into any council bin in Victoria.

[Ratbags]

Originally Posted by yellow door 1

Nah I have to shred alot of top secret design drawings so no one can copy my stuff. The lock is so noone can get into the bin and sticky tape them back together

The base of the portable vice wedges tightly into any council bin in Victoria.

Thanks for clarifying YD! Will be helpful in my choice of bin.

[greggo_1]

Originally Posted by yellow door 1

Nah I have to shred alot of top secret design drawings so no one can copy my stuff. The lock is so noone can get into the bin and sticky tape them back together

Now where did I put that sticky tape?

[yellow door 1]

Originally Posted by greggo_1

Now where did I put that sticky tape?

Sticky tape aint gonna help for the truly top secret stuff.

I've included a shot of what they looked like before they started eating my shredded ideas - and a vid of what they look like after

[greggo_1]

Originally Posted by yellow door 1

Sticky tape aint gonna help for the truly top secret stuff.

I've included a shot of what they looked like before they started eating my shredded ideas - and a vid of what they look like after

Ha...Gold.!!

[yellow door 1]

Well the red legs arrived and I was a little apprehensive about my skills on the vice..................But I've only gone and nailed it first try

[yellow door 1]

Originally Posted by Green Hornet

As a keen blackfish chaser who has a stack of those corks laying about to make floats from, I'm keen to know exactly what you mean by steaming.
Do you just soak them in hot water, or do you keep the heat up to them somehow?

There isnt much info on the net but I did find this

http://www.ehow.com/how_10058275_make-cork-expand.html

The article said to use a steamer but I didnt want put dirty corks in my steamer. (they discoloured the boiled water like a very weak tea-bag)

So I just filled the bottle with boiling hot water - then I taped the lid shut so the corks would float around in a steamy environment. I left them for about 15 mins.

So according to the article, a steamer with a constant source of heat would get faster results.

There every chance I've water logged the cork so I'll either let them air for a week - shove them down a heating vent over night - or chuck them in the oven before using them

[Green Hornet]

Sounds good.
Thanks for the tip.