Things you've found other uses for? But, then again, perhaps you wish you hadn't... I was sand blasting last winter and was so annoyed that my media was constantly blocking the gun.. thinking on my feet I thought, Mrs N is at her Mums all day, so thought, I know I will lay the sand out on baking trays and put them in her ( 2 month old) Neff built in oven.. I found some baking trays in a cupboard and? Well, what was not to like.. brilliant, it worked a treat... Next day, I had been rumbled, or should that be crumbled? Mrs N had made me a favourite desert, apple crumble served with ice cream.. Watching me tucking in she asked was it good ? Mmmm I said, scrummy, it's even more crunchy than normal, couldn't be better. Oh she said, I'm amazed you like it so, the crunchyness is down to a new ingredient I added this time, I looked at her a bit puzzled, sand she said, from the inside of my oven which obv you put there, so, I thought rather than waste it I'd add it to your crumble.. I'm always dubious now when she makes me a crumble..
i put a set of exhaust headers and mid section in the fridge to cool them down to fit, misses wasnt to impressed when she came home with the shopping!
I sprayed my Guzzi LeMans exhaust headers with black Sperex (when it was Sperex and not Simoniz) then got them into the oven to cure them - the oven stunk for weeks. I use my mains electric drill as a mini-lath clamped in a vice with the item clamped in the chuck - for turning small items, using an old really sharp wood chisel that I tempered to get it harder, and then fine files; then polishing. Safety goggles worn. Items such as stainless steel brake pad pins from very strong door hinge pins. Very small stainless steel R-clips for brake pad pins from some spare fishing tackle links. I made front mudguard extenders from old crash helmet visors.
You do realise you won't find Charcoal toothpaste up there don't you? Superdrug do it though, £2.99 https://www.superdrug.com/Superdrug/Superdrug-Pro-Care-Charcoal-Toothpaste-75ml/p/718090
Talking of toothbrushes I stumbled into the bathroom at get up time for work 5am, once, unaware Mrs N had done one of her change things around missions the day before( e.g. Things that have been in the same place for years now need a new home) brushing my teeth it slowly dawned on me all was not as it should have been, she had swapped over the location of the pump action toothpaste for a pump action cleansing potion/ body cream she uses. Worse was soon to follow when I tried to rinse it out with water, I had a full day spent with a soapy taste in my mouth and also found if I sneezed it often produced bubbles from my nose...
Oh and sorry to bore you but... 300 muddy golf balls in Mrs N's washing machine on boil wash.. not a good end result ... for the balls, the washing machine or for I either.. Simon Mayo loved it though...
Laying on my back in the hallway I used a Weirauch .22 air-rifle to kill a hornet which was p*ssing me off by droning around the bedroom doors upstairs - I put the landing light on (high up on the ceiling in the stairwell) and it settled on the light rose - Pow! Splat! Shatter! (that was the light rose gone); Oh f*ck it! (As the bits of the rose and the hornet landed on me). And then I saw the ceiling and wiring damage. I also filled used .22 brass rimfire cartridges with finely crushed up Swan Vesta match-heads, sealed the tops with a lead plug (only once did one go off and rip the end of my finger); then I put them into and old modified BSA air-rifle barrel with a .22 air-rifle pellet in front. (the piston had a spike screwed into it as a firing pin). Worked quite well about 10 times and then the barrel breech split.
