User Eric’s CC BY-SA Ideas

Basics

• Making this page to keep short non ranty (or at least less ranty) / link spam ideas on here rather than User Eric’s Temporary Trashcan Page or in my Daily Log
• Mainly just getting ideas out of my head and onto the internet so if I don’t get around to them first someone else can see it and do something with it

10/12/2025

• A Modern Flintlock Lighter that is less gun-derived
  • Neat in terms of Appropriate Materials and quite slick, but most are basically just flintlock musket's adapted into a fancy aristocractic lighter
  • Modern Manufacturing + Skimping on some parts (such as fancy finishes / handle material) + adapting for use with more conventional modern tinders (rather than a Tinderbox or Black Powder) would be neat
• A Kelly Kettle but improved via Vacuum Insulation or at LEAST an air gapped wall
  • Especially with Additive Manufacturing , although not necessarily, one could do all sorts of stuff like make the Chimney a Coil / more serpentine, add Heat Exchanger Fins to that, Integrate a Burner (For Propane etc) make a Solo Stove type Secondary Air inlet for use on Wood Fire etc
• A Vacuum Thermos / Water Bottle "Crumple Zone" Layer based off of either Expanded Metal (Packing or a Formed Unit), or via Additive Manufacturing
  • Granted a "Cozy" or Elastomer based sacrificial outer layer is obviously still nice, but figured something integral to the bottle / made of fireproof metal may be of use in some contexts

10/7/2024

• Was pressure washing off the containment by the Tank Farm
  • Had me thinking of:
    • Using Paraffin Wax / Something akin to Japanning as a Concrete Coating
      • A Method of Testing the Biodegradation Rate of Non-Paint Coatings via having a modified Petri Dish with two sections:
        • A Cylindrical Tube with Graduations to determine Wear Rate
        • A “detection” agar or other media to determine when something has “broken through”
        • Main downsides to this method would be the time it takes for some materials, and the data only being relevant to whatever Microbes / Surface Microbiome is used
          • Having standardized pure strains + mixes + local swabs would probably suffice, albeit requiring much testing