Comments on: Gas powered blender

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 27 May 2008 00:10:00 +0000

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.

By: turdmoe

turdmoe — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 02:58:07 +0000

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

By: savannahlion

savannahlion — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 20:43:16 +0000

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. :(

By: BlackKaiser

BlackKaiser — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 01:30:24 +0000

hmmmm….how many mpg? city and hwy?

By: Crizor

Crizor — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 06:40:15 +0000

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.

By: Phugedaboudet

Phugedaboudet — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 00:35:19 +0000

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:)

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 16:20:12 +0000

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.

By: Teren

Teren — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 14:24:41 +0000

update plz

By: zaqx

zaqx — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 13:50:09 +0000

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 :(

By: bob7k

bob7k — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 12:05:42 +0000

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.

By: maros

maros — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 12:01:37 +0000

There is nothing like fresh fumes and shake ;)

By: daler

daler — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 10:29:03 +0000

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

By: Keith L. Dick

Keith L. Dick — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 10:00:12 +0000

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…

By: D o

D o — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 08:46:56 +0000

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?

By: bp

bp — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 05:05:50 +0000

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!