Gas powered blender

posted Aug 14th 2006 12:00am by Eliot Phillips
filed under: home entertainment hacks

I’m attending the funeral of my best friend’s father today. As a mechanical engineer, I always admired the man as an excellent machinist. What follows is a post I wrote last year about his gas powered blender. You’ll be sorely missed Mr. Frost.

My roommate Frosty has often joked about how many lawnmowers and weedeaters his dad has laying around. It seems that his dad has decided to take care of the clutter and I, for one, am scared. Yes my friends, a gas powered blender. It has been done before, but you’ve got to respect Greg’s scratch building prowess. Finally you can vaporize ice in mere seconds and with the way the handle bars are mounted it’s guaranteed to make the goofying process far more intimate than usual. By my count this means he still has four more engines in the garage; I don’t know what’s next, but god help us all.

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…and thus a portal in time opened within my smoothie…and the strawberry from hell emerged from within…

Posted at 12:08 pm on Aug 14th, 2006 by Fluffy

Don’t think you can use this indoors :D

Posted at 12:17 pm on Aug 14th, 2006 by joel

i need a cold fusion powered toaster, my poptarts take to long to heat up..

Posted at 12:31 pm on Aug 14th, 2006 by TROYFREW

If you want to heat up your toast quickly surely a fission reactor will do the job better than “cold fusion”?

Posted at 12:39 pm on Aug 14th, 2006 by Matt

If you want to heat up your toast quickly surely a fission reactor will do the job better than “cold fusion”?

Posted at 12:41 pm on Aug 14th, 2006 by Matt

You could design a PC mod that uses the heat from the processor to hewat your poptarts. Add a lever on the side of the case that makes them pop up, if you really want to be spiffy.

Posted at 1:14 pm on Aug 14th, 2006 by Ironwater

Why is the handle backwards?

Posted at 1:29 pm on Aug 14th, 2006 by Pandeimc

I saw a casemod with an egg cup on the heatsink once, which was pretty cool.

Posted at 2:12 pm on Aug 14th, 2006 by SL

yes! now we can all benefit from the healthiness of smoothies at the next tailgate party. Of course this may be offset by the health risks of breathing exaust from a 2 stroke motor but hey you can’t have it all now can you?

Posted at 2:15 pm on Aug 14th, 2006 by stephen

I never got to take the thing apart. The best feature is the fully machined cup that container sits in it looks like it was meant to be there all along.

Posted at 2:33 pm on Aug 14th, 2006 by Eliot Phillips

Troyfrew, according to the package poptarts take 3 whole seconds to heat up in the microwave. IS that too much for you? What about a box that could keep them warm/hot all the time….hmmmm

Posted at 2:44 pm on Aug 14th, 2006 by weirdguy0101

Must…Have…This…Blender….

Posted at 2:48 pm on Aug 14th, 2006 by Matt

the first item for blending that came to mind was … frogs. don’t know why.

Posted at 3:05 pm on Aug 14th, 2006 by bodiby

you disgusting creep! lol ;)

Posted at 3:59 pm on Aug 14th, 2006 by andrew

and now for the low low price of 6 blended frogs and a nun you to can own your very own gas powered blender. Seriously though, who wouldn’t want one of these. I hate how hard it is to make margaritas in my cheap blender!

Posted at 4:11 pm on Aug 14th, 2006 by Digital

Posted at 4:17 pm on Aug 14th, 2006 by Digital

thats nothing, you should see my blender-powered lawn mower and weed-eater!

Posted at 4:19 pm on Aug 14th, 2006 by monster

#10 Whats green,wight, and red allover?

Posted at 4:25 pm on Aug 14th, 2006 by casstreat

Thanks for the kind words. My father always found the site interesting, though many times it was over his head. My father was a beer man, but he built the blender just because he could. Trust me this thing could vaporize just about any thing you put into it… including frogs.

Posted at 4:40 pm on Aug 14th, 2006 by FROSTY

frosty: i’m awed by your dad’s ingeniousness. my sincere condolences, such an excellent tinkerer will be sorely missed.

Posted at 6:10 pm on Aug 14th, 2006 by fbz

a salute to all fathers out there, lift a beer with your old man and tell him thanks.. unless he’s a deadbeat asshole.

Frosty, my condolences and I wish your family the best.

Posted at 6:16 pm on Aug 14th, 2006 by nate mc

Wow. That could make some really good (insert alcoholic drink here)

I’m sorry to hear about your dad, frosty.

Posted at 6:20 pm on Aug 14th, 2006 by HaX80r

Eliot

my prayers go to him ,his family and friends.

may god guide him home.

Posted at 6:23 pm on Aug 14th, 2006 by werejag

I <3 overkill

Posted at 6:25 pm on Aug 14th, 2006 by fucter

I am really sorry for your lost frosty but he will be looking down upon you, proud of his son :) chin up mate

Posted at 7:11 pm on Aug 14th, 2006 by Tom Parker

wow another color pic…eliots on a roll

Posted at 8:10 pm on Aug 14th, 2006 by binarybandit92

My condolences frosty… it looks like your father was a real craftsman.

Anyway, wow! I would love to have one of these! It must have sounded like a jet engine when it was turned on though!

Posted at 10:05 pm on Aug 14th, 2006 by bp

Holy crap. That is cool just for its uselessness factor. I mean, who wouldn’t want to rev up their blender then throw whole apples / oranges in there. Maybe add a filtration system to take out the peels and you have a sweet juicemaker.

Does anyone know how he did it?

Posted at 1:46 am on Aug 15th, 2006 by D o

I really had to think for awhile what a *Gas Powered Toilet* would be like…

Then I thought about everything that was part of me going down the Drain…

Nope!!!, No thanks…

Posted at 3:00 am on Aug 15th, 2006 by Keith L. Dick

Now when I venture to the far corners of the earth, I can bring the rum and ice with me!

Posted at 3:29 am on Aug 15th, 2006 by daler

There is nothing like fresh fumes and shake ;)

Posted at 5:01 am on Aug 15th, 2006 by maros

I’m sorry about your loss also, i too have been working on a few projects of my own, and i have my own case to do it on, 1 is a cheap cdrom drive modified for a heating coil and a stainless steel Teflon coated disc tray, all for bacon, the bacon drive. ill also work on mixing an old toaster with crumb tray into the comp, pop tarts insert sideways, this is gonna be cool, gotta go back to measuring n stuff.

Posted at 5:05 am on Aug 15th, 2006 by bob7k

i like the bacon drive idea, and i think i will have to build one now… how ever i have never had the need for a gas-powered blender, it’s definetly something I would never have thought of. yet it’s still not a bad idea.

As for the PC poptart toaster… wouldn’t work for me. instead i believe my pc mp could bake a turkey if I left the cover on.lol, it’s currently being used as a space heater, along side my daily hack-a-day browsing…

R.I.P. Mr. Frost :(

Posted at 6:50 am on Aug 15th, 2006 by zaqx

update plz

Posted at 7:24 am on Aug 15th, 2006 by Teren

Tha handle is on backwards so you can (try to) hold the lid on with your chin, of course! Or to connect a straw so that awfull health shake you are making is instantly sent down your throat without you having to taste it. It also lets the blender take up slightly less space on the shelf.

Posted at 9:20 am on Aug 15th, 2006 by Chris

hmm, I remember a link (I think it was from here) for a large capacity margarita maker using a garbage disposal, PVC pipe and a drink cooler…perhaps a combination of the two hacks, removing the electric motor from the disposal and adding the weedeater motor…not only gas powered but enough to get a whole neighborhood plastered…hmmm.

Only thing cooler would be to run it from one of those homebuilt gas turbines made from a truck turbocharger:)

Posted at 5:35 pm on Aug 15th, 2006 by Phugedaboudet

When I was 16 I made a lawn mower using the motor of an old blender attached to a model airplane propeller, a bent pipe and a broomstick, and it worked! Loud as an airplane, no blade protection at all and it shot out crushed grass 2 meters high that made me green after a few minutes using it – it was almost as dangerous as juggling chainsaws – maybe that’s even why I enjoyed it ;-). The blender is a cooler way to show off, though.

Posted at 11:40 pm on Aug 15th, 2006 by Crizor

hmmmm….how many mpg? city and hwy?

Posted at 6:30 pm on Aug 16th, 2006 by BlackKaiser

My father passed away about two years ago as well. We’re still cleaning his workshop out and I’m finding all sorts of interesting stuff.

My father wasn’t the type of guy to buy something if he could build it himself cheaper and better. As a result of his own tinkering, I have this wicked table saw with an (electric) motor from hell. Turn the thing on, the lights dim and the blade growls. Once the blade is up to speed, it sounds like one of the machines in Screamers. The blade is counterbalanced so it can come up as far as you want and there are absolutely no safety devices on it.

Unfortunately, because it’s so damn big, I have to have it in pieces to fit in my storage room. :(

Posted at 1:43 pm on Aug 17th, 2006 by savannahlion

Cool, but it serves no purpose other than being extremely loud, dangerous, and perhaps cutting your blending time by about a second.
http://cggallery.blogspot.com/index.html

Posted at 7:58 pm on Aug 17th, 2006 by turdmoe

This is weak. My friend Jonas Nash built an 8-foot-tall Blender of Death powered by a Volkswagen engine. It was originally designed to destroy art at Burning Man, but later he added a plastic lining to the pitcher so it could prepare drinks. I’ve seen it in action. He dumped in bags of whole fruit, several large bottles of liquor, ten or fifteen pounds of ice… man, that was a kickass NYE party. I don’t remember much after the blender was turned on, except for my girlfriend punching me in the face and our housemate shooting bottle rockets out of her cleavage.

Posted at 5:10 pm on May 26th, 2008 by Kevin

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