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How combustible gas detectors are made…
September 2nd, 2010 | 
Author: Propaganda flick from the National Association of Manufacturers, but it's fascinating stuff!
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DIY repeating crossbow
The Chu-Ko-Nu is a 2,400-year-old Chinese repeating crossbow featuring a 10-shot magazine. It was a marvel of mechanical design that was still in use up until the era of gunpowder weapons. Make: Online reader Bjørn sent in a link to maker Leong Kit Meng's recreation of the Cho-Ko-Nu. The photos are nice, but the instructions and plans are fairly non-existent at least on this page. I found another site with more detailed instructions if you want to make your own.
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DIY In-N-Out burgers
Those are some good burgers, dude. J. Kenji Lopez-Alt reverse engineered In-N-Out's legendary "Spread" and made himself a Double-Double.
I've been a rabid, if underexposed fan of the cult-ish fast food burger joint since I tried my first Double-Double (that's two patties, two slices of cheese) a couple years back. As burgers go, it's an oddity in my book, in that it's not about the beef.
Sure, the fresh-never-frozen patties are tasty enough, but the sandwich is more than that. It's the interplay between the ooey-gooey American cheese, the sweet, darkly-toasted bun, the juicier-than-average tomatoes, the crisp iceberg, the full, un-separated-into-rings slice of onion, and the all-important sweet, tangy, pickle-laden Spread. It's a bomb that's rigged to hit every pleasure center on my brain's taste analyzation terminal (by which I mean my tongue). Salty, sweet, savory, soft, crisp, and fresh.
The Burger Lab: The Ins-n-Outs of an In-N-Out Double-Double, Animal-Style via Kottke
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How-To: Make traditional Hawaiian shark-tooth weapons
OK, so it's not actually a tutorial--it's a chapter from Oakland martial arts instructor Sid Campbell's 2006 Warrior Arts and Weapons of Ancient Hawaii that's freely available in its entirety on Google Books. I found Campbell's book after seeing one of these lei o mano, as I think they are called, in a Discovery channel program. Before hiking to the library to check it out I thought, what the heck, I'll see how much is available on gBooks, and was surprised to find that the chapter on shark-tooth weapons, which goes into great detail about the various traditional methods of preparing the teeth and attaching them to the handle, is all there. Thanks to Mr. Campbell and his publisher. If you're into it, please consider buying the book.
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