macgyver it - household items re-tasked

[old_geezer]

I took an otherwise useless item laying around the house and now use it with my lawnmower to mow my lawn! It's awesome!

http://lotsoffun.org/links/reuse.jpg

- Joe

 

[shynsly]

thats when the fight started.....

I took an otherwise useless item laying around the house and now use it with my lawnmower to mow my lawn! It's awesome!

http://lotsoffun.org/links/reuse.jpg

- Joe

 

[old_geezer]

thats when the fight started.....

Not unless she sees that post
- Joe

 

[The Ocelot]

Serious?!?!?!?!

Yes, seriously. I used them on the original Protank with the super airy draw. The hole in the middle fits a 510 pin perfectly and they are narrower at the base than the tank, so you can't see them when they are on. You can also layer them if more restriction is needed. I don't use them too much now, since the Kanger heads have been "improved" from so airy my head is spinning to sucking a ping pong ball through a garden hose...

 

[Merryhellion]

I use strips of foam sheet; dollar store has packets of them in the hobby materials section...for a buck =) They also make easily rinseable places to put down juicy things you didn't expect to find in your hand all of a sudden. The strips are also great for preserving the metal on a tank, as jaw wraps when one has to get a good tool grip on the pieces to untwist a jam

 

[celticluvr]

My Leatherman Micra multitool, Sheffield multitool and some cheapo multitool (all of them I got for free) The little gizmo's and gadgets really come in handy when fiddlin' with ecig stuff.

i.e. The nail file is used for sharpening toothpicks(another item) to clean around my sealed batts. (yeah I know I need to upgrade soon. I am. I am getting the Smokeless Image version of the MVP and am soooo excited)

 

[Mowgli]

Sneaker box with flip-top makes a great juice storage.
The forty or so 1960's potentiometer boxes I inherited from my dad make uber cool storage organization.

Freezer repurposed as vapocalypse storage (4.4L)

Never throw away a used toothbrush.
Coffee cups, ashtrays, dental pick, butterdish, Work Light, robot arms magnifier, diabetes case, lathe bowls...

I repurposed the dining room. Maybe this one belongs in the "You know you're a vaper when..." thread

Prehistoric Nokia case for the MVP2

$22 of junk plastic cabinet from Wally World - works great!

 

[TyCreek]

Hill Billy flavor holder? Wood scraps, duck tape and a tool rack.

 

[Mowgli]

We use Bounty vapor towels now instead of the cheapest we could find.

 

[bzmotoninja83]

Couple of storage type things. 2 are made from spare/scrap wood and one is a Gurkha cigar box.

This one is a dollar store find. 3 compartment tray....

And the cigar box. Apparently, it's a high dollar box and, dad gave it to me.

Decided to Google image search for the box and, it retails for $470 with it and 25 cigars..... not bad.

 

[tazzle]

I took a used wine bottle cork and put a bamboo kebob skewer in the hole left by the cork screw.

It stands upright and I use it for drying and displaying my drip tips.

The cork and bamboo help to absorb the water.

Nothing fancy but it took 30 seconds to make and it works great!

Such a great idea! I just tried it (with an additional bit of sticking the cork into a candle holder, which fits perfectly!), but the skewer I have is too thick. I live in SouvlakiLand, however, and will surely find one that suits! Thanks for the tip!

 

[lilpeach]

I use decorating tips for icing cakes as mini funnels because I can't commit to a full tank of juice. Works great to get the juice from the tank back into the e-juice bottle

 

[eGoinMD]

Now I have to add a lab urine sample bottle holding dirty heads for my Evods and T3S's while they soak in cheap vodka.

It was fresh outta the package, hence sterile, when I got it.

 

[Lambada Dave]

eGoinMD, thank you for specifying that it was a sterile, unused one. It sounds like a fine container for some gunked up heads soaking in alcohol. Did you write your name on a piece of masking tape to label it?

 

[Smittymc]

When I started vaping I had a mod that used 14650 batteries. I like doing things on a budget. I also like doing things in a big way and I like MORE POWER! I found some single cell chargers on sale for a couple of bucks apiece and combined them with some Ace Hardware cube taps. The result was a seven bank charger that cost less than any four or six bank charger on the market at the time. I used it for about a year. Sometimes I charged three batts at a time, sometimes five and sometimes seven. The only problem was the huge amount of RF put out by these combined chargers. They made any AM radio unusable within 100 yards of my house and cut my ADSL speed in half.

I want one now...lol. Mainly to mess with people's radios but also to cut charging time down.

 

[yzer]

I want one now...lol. Mainly to mess with people's radios but also to cut charging time down.

Many single battery chargers are now 1 amp chargers (1000mA) and seven of them should work with the 15 amp cube taps. 1 amp chargers are not the best for longest battery life. You can buy a better charger with more reasonable charge profiles for much less now. I bought a Nitecore Intellicharger i-4 (4 bank) for $17 from Amazon earlier this year.

 

[WifeyCO]

This by far my favorite thread.
My only addition, if you have a Ego or 510 battery that has scratches or you are tired of the color you can use Duct Tape to cover it, it now comes in all kinds of patterns and it comes in sheets also. I also use a prescription bottle to keep my bottles of juice, that I am currently using. I keep the piece of paper around the bottle to block out the light and write down the juice mix that is in the bottles.

 

[tallboysclub]

Some pipettes from work to load up my tank, shh!

 

[eGoinMD]

eGoinMD, thank you for specifying that it was a sterile, unused one. It sounds like a fine container for some gunked up heads soaking in alcohol. Did you write your name on a piece of masking tape to label it?

No label. It's in my kitchen(drawing odd looks from my wife), and I only use single coil tanks. My youngest stepson uses dual coils, so no problems with "who's is this" type things.

 

[Lambada Dave]

WifeyCO, is that pic of a custom duct tape wrap? That is very cool. The EGO style batteries would be so easy as the battery portion is an uninterrupted circle.

And is that peacock and camo duct tape? I need to go craft store hunting!