Creative uses for...

[The Lone Rider]

Have you got things laying around that you wish you could think up uses for, rather than throw them away?

I've got two at the moment. Maybe you can give me some ideas. And post up your own!

- I've got a handful of fully disabled 5.56 rounds.
- A hot glue gun


I can't think of anything to do with either.

Glue gun used to be used for crafts when I was a kid, and I've hung onto it for 20 years or so, thinking it might come in handy!

Edit-

Hmm maybe I'll just collect some sticks and leaves and glue them to paper with my daughter.

[SMOKEU]

Deoderant can + lighter = flamethrower.

[bogan]

Have a search of the instructables.com website, people do a lot with spent casings!

I turned a broken hard drive and a bit of pipe into a rotating toothbrush holder, and non-rotating razor holder. I also turned some old cutlery into a photo holder, and more old cutlery into a one handed steak cutting/eating device aka the fnork 2.0 Scrap metal challenges are always fun.

[Usarka]

When i was young me and a mate went to school at night and he drew a chalk outline around me and we splashed some chicken blood around (his old man killed chickens). Would have been even better sprinkling some shell casings around.

[Road kill]

Turned a pile of rusting old british bike parts into a working motorcycle.
Turned a few critters into things like mince,steak,chops,roasts.
Turned heaps of fish into fillets,fishcakes,soups.
Turned my next doors cat into a blood stain on my front lawn,,little turd factory wasn't expecting that
Turned my front door step into somewhere Mormons will never feel comfortable again.
Got a shed full of different things that my mrs still calls Junk even after 33 years of bondage,but I'll be turning most of that into something usefull when I get around to it.
If you have a gun,fishing rod,shovel,hammer,welder or any of them sorts of things,,,you can turn most things into something else.

[SMOKEU]

1.5L soft drink bottle + 2.25L soft drink bottle + cone piece = bucket bong.

[bogan]

Deoderant can + lighter = flamethrower.

1.5L soft drink bottle + 2.25L soft drink bottle + cone piece = bucket bong.

You're like the Da-fucking-vinci of your generation bro

[unstuck]

Looking for an old diesel tank, the kind that run home heating units. Want to make my own sand/soda blasting cabinet. I am always turning old shit into different shit,to collect dust in my shed.

[SMOKEU]

You're like the Da-fucking-vinci of your generation bro

Well, I aim to please.

[Scuba_Steve]

Have you got things laying around that you wish you could think up uses for, rather than throw them away?

I've got two at the moment. Maybe you can give me some ideas. And post up your own!

- I've got a handful of fully disabled 5.56 rounds.
- A hot glue gun

Just ad in your helmet & voila

[unstuck]

Just ad in your helmet & voila

[munster]

I made a wind chime out of differnet sized cartridge cases. Top centre piece is a 40mm rifle grenade shell from an M72.

Outside goes from .50 cal down to a .22. Centre 'dinger' is a .308

Makes a nice noise.

[tri boy]

1.5L soft drink bottle + 2.25L soft drink bottle + cone piece = bucket bong.

Pfft. Amarture.
Try a plastic rubbish bin in a swimming pool.
Oz in large cone, (fitted to the base of the inverted rubbish bin).
Two mates draw it up out of the water, while a third mate "stokes"it with a Benzomatic torch.
Receiver dives under the bucket, and the other two push down so the retreiver receives the goodness.
Note: Don't get caught by your shift boss or mine site manager.

[The Lone Rider]

Didnt get around to using the glue gun for anything yet.


Also.. got way to many empty maconna coffee jars. Great jars, so hung onto them. No idea what to use them for though!

If I did jam making, they'd be perfect!

[nudemetalz]

I've got a couple of recoilless rifle shells (approx 90mm in diameter and 450mm long) sitting in the garage. Thinking of making a lamp out of them with coloured lcd light tubes.
They're rather heavy !