Posted 8 years ago
SpiritBear
(813 items)
I made this, and it does function.
Years ago, I found a damaged ink-well in the lake. I sat it with other junk bottles for a year, then one day found the bulbous neck to a cream-top milk-bottle in the woods whilst I was digging a household dump.
It still says on two sides, "It whips". I noticed that it fit over the ink-well and stayed stable.
Breaking off the sharp, knife-like projection of glass at the end, I ground its edges a bit to make it safe but stopped lest I crack it.
I then took a tea-light candle that was spent, heated it to melt the residual wax, cleared it of everything, and formed it around the mouth of the ink-well after putting a hole in the bottom of the tin and made the cut's two sides stand up like a mountain.
Cutting a wick to 1/4th size, I pulled the tin off, slid the wick through the bottom, and recapped the bottle with it.
From an outdoor kerosene lamp, I took a little circle-clamp (not sure what it's called) and put it around the wick for my to grab with pliers to lift it higher when it is burning. I can push the burning wick down with pliers to make it burn less high.
I filled the bottle with kerosene, let the wick soak, lit it, put the top on, and waited for it to crack.
Hours of burning later, with much testing to ensure that the glass won't crack and that the metal won't melt, it is still a functional kerosene lamp and piece of art I no longer use. Nothing had to be replaced.
I could put somebody like you to work in the islands fixing planes. We have to "paint in shades of grey" sometimes to keep them in the air.
I had wanted to build my own toy motor-boat that works. I never got around to it, so I have no idea on any engines. :P
"No problem Mon ! " . Actually, aircraft are easy to work on. Complicated crap that require computers that can screw-up are avoided as much as possible. Small planes : Repair if you can or replace. Big planes: Replace ! Hey, anybody can follow that ! LOL!! Piece of cake !
My town makes I think it was 85% of the World's supply of some part to most modern airplanes. Can't recall the part, but it's fairly interestign to think that planes in Russia may have something made in Muskegon.
We did the same for parts to submarines in WW2. Other cities did planes and ships.
We just try to avoid any involvement in war. I got feed-up with U.S. wars in '73 & left . Never regretted it. The rest of the world is going to do what they want to do anyway, so why bother them ? Let them kill each other off if that's what they want ! Why get involved ? WE DON'T , and happy.
When Germany took France & the Netherlands, it didn't really affect these islands except for an unnoticed blockade by the Allies at 1st. U-Boots got fresh fruit & veggies for awhile, til the Americans installed an air base in '43. Why get into hassles when you can step aside ? The Islanders never really knew there was a war ! LOL!
Which island you on?
St. Maarten/St. Martin. Half Dutch, half French.
I'm familiar, actually, as I had to research 4 islands for Sociology, and St. Martin was one.
We are kind of where the Windward & Leeward Islands meet & I refer to us as the Wayward Islands. LOL!!
Very funny. :P