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
• Pepper Spray / Bear Spray with an Integrated Aiming Laser and Auditory Alarm (Triggered Upon Using/When an Arming Pin is Pulled etc)
  • Seen both of those available SEPARATELY off the shelf, but none in some unified unit
• 18650 Cell or Tri-AAA Battery Run (With Design for Alkaline or Ni-MH Rechargeable)
  • High Volume Inflators (For Air Mattresses / Air Cushions / Air Pillows / Floats etc)
  • One of those Electronic Horns / Bear Deterrent / Electronic Whistle type things
  • Electric Lighters (be it NiChrome Heater, Plasma, or Arc)
  • A Nice "Luggage Scale" / Gas Canister Scale BUT allow you to insert the Tare Weight first, at least for larger tanks it's listed on the side, for whatever reason OTS Scales either assume the scale will only be used with THEIR tanks, or not even show fuel in Grams etc but just a bar with 0-100% full at 25% graduation etc
• Consumer Butane and Propane Tanks with a Vapor Return Port
  • Butane Lighter could be two pins, one snaking to the top of the tank (may need to be an internal tube/less easily done due to the low cost of the refill tanks)
    • Potentially using a LARGER Butane tank, and having it be done as a service could be done as well "50 Cents for a Lighter Refill" etc
    • For Propane, need to look into if the existing Autogas / CNG Standards have a return line
    • All else that would be needed would be the right adapters, of which they MAY be able to screw on a standard 20lb tank etc

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