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Garden trowel from hot-formed PVC pipe
August 31st, 2010 | 
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A trowel is such an inexpensive tool, it's hard for me to imagine making my own for anything besides the experience of making and having made it myself. Still, I can see why someone might want to make this one described by Instructables "PVC whisperer" Thinkenstein: It starts from ubiquitous scrap material, looks good, and is made using an unusual process that involves softening PVC pipe under heat (a delicate trick, safety wise) and forming it by hand.
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How-To: Perforated pizza peel
Mike Senese writes:
Read the Full Story » | More on MAKE » | Comments » | Read more articles in Instructables | Digg this!The idea behind a perforated peel is that it reduces the amount of flour that gets underneath the dough when placing it in the oven (too much flour will brown up and taste bitter), and helps keep things from sticking by reducing the amount of friction underneath the dough. I discovered the magic of the perforated pizza peel after getting to make pizza with Pizzahacker for an evening, and decided to make a DIY version for myself. These are the steps I took to make it.
How-To: Perforated pizza peel
Mike Senese writes:
Read the Full Story » | More on MAKE » | Comments » | Read more articles in Instructables | Digg this!The idea behind a perforated peel is that it reduces the amount of flour that gets underneath the dough when placing it in the oven (too much flour will brown up and taste bitter), and helps keep things from sticking by reducing the amount of friction underneath the dough. I discovered the magic of the perforated pizza peel after getting to make pizza with Pizzahacker for an evening, and decided to make a DIY version for myself. These are the steps I took to make it.
Channel-changing "most useful" machine
Randy Sarafan made this simple automated button pusher, which presses the "channel up" button on a TV remote once every minute.
I bet he has pressed the channel-up button thousands, if not tens-of-thousands, of times. That's a lot of effort being exerted to change the channel. But what if that effort was not necessary? What if there was a way to change the channel without ever exerting the effort it took to press the button? What if there was a machine that pressed the button for you once per minute? Well then, perhaps, just maybe, that would be The Most Useful Machine... EVER!More:
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