Re: #2721 ASPERGER'S

>> You may be onto a money makeing idea there.  Maybe one of the round
>> PCB's that Make uses could be converted into a geek pizza slicer.

> By the time they finish manufacture, PCBs should have been 
> washed clean of manufacturing chemicals (which would otherwise be a 
> source of corrosion to the completed product). But what you're likely 
> to get for a job like this is stuff that's failed some test part-way 
> through the manufacturing process. So they're unlikely to have been 
> properly cleaned before going into the "sell to geeks or send for 
> landfill" bin.

Yeah , PCBs would be lousy for that job.
You can use harddrive platters as cutting wheels though if you sharpen the edges.
The platters from a notebook drive are probably best for this as 3� inch
cutting wheels would be impractical but 2� inch ones would be just right.

Something I'd really love to find new and creative uses for, is discarded
wafers :)
I don't know if they are strong enough to be used as cutting wheels , but the
bigger ones would look nice on my wall as modern art and the smaller ones
would make great coasters.
You could probably also use them to put hot pans and pots on, when you're
setting the table.

> CJ had said
>>> ( the pci cover
>>> plate on it had really sharp edges )
>        That parses to me as the metal edge of the exterior plate, not 
> the circuit board. And having gashed my knuckles inside enough computer 
> cases, that doesn't surprise me.

You're correct.
And I've also cut myself many times working with pc's so that's probably how I
got the idea in the first place.

> I'm just trying to think what weird things I've used in a "pizza 
> slicer" mode before - depressingly boring I'm afraid. Closest I can get 
> is using the blade of a felling axe to eat a roast potato from (and 
> yes, I'd made an appetite for the tattie by using the felling axe for 
> felling). 

Once on a trainride home from Austria , my mother and I (and the 3 other
occupants in our compartment) used a big screwdriver to butter our bread.

You can use many geeky things to butter bread .. CD's come to mind.

Speaking of geeky things .. One of my Christmas decorations that I'm very fond
of is a tree made out of copper wire.
I can take a photo of it, if you'd like to see it.
Or maybe do a ascii-art of it.

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