User Eric’s CC BY-SA Ideas

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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

List

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)
  • 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
  • A Desiccant System Like This but using a (Non-Cobalt etc) Color Indicating Silica Gel, inside a Fine Stainless Steel or Hard Coat Anodized Aluminum Canister
    • Could also have either a Microscope Slide (For Glass) or Sapphire Watch Glass (For more scratch resistant Glass) Option to view the color indicating
    • A similar system could also work well for Granulated Activated Carbon etc
      • Either semi-disposable, or with some Steam Regeneration Flow Through Base
        • Could even make a neat Kettle / Steam Boiler Unit for that
  • A Megaphone That:
    • Uses 18650 Cells or a PILE of AA/AAA Cells in Adapters (or SOME SORT of standardized rechargeable arrangement)
    • Also has a 12v Barrel Jack or USB-C Power In (for use independent of batteries) (Also could configure for charge-through)
    • Audio in/out 9 3.5mm Jack would be the standard, XLR would be a nice splurge
    • Also one of those Handheld Radio standards for the removable microphone bit
    • Almost all OTS units use an integral or custom rechargeable battery, or a PILE of D Cells
    • Also a hardwired microphone or none 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
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