Submitted 2 years ago by squashkin@wolfballs.com to main@wolfballs.com
cross-posted from: https://wolfballs.com/post/9466
Simple DIY, maybe useful for someone or another idea can be spun off it
Simply take some kind of empty cup or container and a measuring cup and a marker, measure the amount you need with measuring cup, pour in to the empty cup, then mark roughly wherever the empty container fills up to
Have any more clone DIY project ideas?
I can see the practical value in this. If we get into a post-apocalyptic situation or like the frontiersman again, there might not be enough things like this for everyone to have. So having replicas, even if temporary ones, helps.
That reminds me of the issue of yeast. If a newcomer came into a wagon camp, they might not have yeast. So someone might give them a small amount and they may take a potato or some sugar and grow the yeast on it. Then they won't need to borrow more and they can "pay it forward" too.
Something I did one time was to use a cup of water in place of a postage scale. I didn't know if I overstuffed the envelope or not. I asked my neighbors if they had a small scale to use, and they said no. I thought that was odd because I knew a couple of folks were moving "product" out of there. Maybe they thought I was a fed or something. Anyway, I filled a cup half-full of water and similarly stuffed other envelopes until I had the number of ounces within comparison range. And both the styrofoam cup and the papers/mail felt about the same. Crude, but worked.
Spotted_Lady@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
Speaking of yeast, if you can't find that, you can use clostridium. I am not saying I'd actually use such a deadly bacteria, but people have over the years. And of course, make sure you bake the hell out of whatever.
Something that can be used for a lot of things is aluminum cans. Besides the obvious of using them to drink out of and store things in, there are many other ways to use them. You can build small stoves out of them, make a solar heater out of them, use them to make simple weapons, rig them as a makeshift alarm, or use them for fishing tackle.