You can put a chunk of tin foil in a bucket of water with baking soda. Put in a dirty br*** item and conect the two with a jumper wire. It will be clean in the morning. Door knobs, hardware etc.
I remember rod magazines from the early seventies,had "road recipes",for cooking on the engine on the way to events.
There's a book, "Manifold Destiny" ... full of highway cooking recipes with mileage chart. Need to solder one small connection without a soldering iron? Strip wires, twist together, add solder, wrap with foil, heat with Zippo or propane torch.
Years Ago A Friend Of My Brothers Came Into Our Kitchen Asking For Tin Foil I Asked "what It Was For "he Said "he Needed A Carburator" I Gave Him The Roll .... Then Sent Dad Out To Help Them With His "carburator ..... Whole Carload Busted They Were Using It On A Bong.
If you pull out a section of about 10 feet off the roll, roll it tightly around a pencil to get it started, roll it tightly then solder a wire to it carefully, hook it to your radio and stick the whole thing out the window, you've successfully made an antenna. It'll pick up Martians, saucers and sometimes Australia...!!! R-
All my work is outside. Had the pan off my '55 not long ago for a couple of weeks. Used tin foil to shield the crankcase from any stray illegals with leaf blowers.
Old thread but here goes, have dull scissors, take a piece of tin foil and cut it, walla sharp scissors ..........................
If you leave your lawn mower outside all winter, squish a piece of foil over the gas cap. No water will get in there.
did this when we were yonger to scare people in the high school parking lot. we would wad up tin foil in little balls and put them in 20oz soda bottles then add the works toilet bowl cleaner cap off waite five min and boom chemical reaction.
Period Correct use of tin foil is to cut strips and put in your Hub Caps--the urban legend was, it would confuse radar guns
I know this thread is over a year old, but I think they stopped using tin since then and now use aluminum for foil. Just a technical FYI update on that for those projects where that may be critical.
I hate to tell you all, but there is no such thing as tin foil. It is really ALUMINUM FOIL. Read the box! Do you really think you can cook food with tin? Sorry for the rant, but thats the way it is. Cool stories though.
Put some sulfer in there with the matches and wrap it REAL tight. Then, you can throw it at a hard surface and you'll have smoke AND a very foul odor. Stink bomb 101 Disclaimer: In NO WAY does the writer of this post advocate the use of fire or smoke as a form of amu*****t or harm to others. Do not try at home.
"Period Correct use of tin foil is to cut strips and put in your Hub Caps--the urban legend was, it would confuse radar guns" Sure, if you dropped 10,000+ of them from the bomb bay of a Lancaster, B-17 or B-24 at 15,000 feet (ask my old pastor, who was a 16-year old Luftwaffe flak helper/aimer in 1945)
Spray glue on those boring stamped valve covers, add aluminum foil, and you got it........... Insta-Billet!
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