Workshop.HealthSufficiency

You can preserve the fresh beauty of flowers for years in their natural vivid colors without a great deal of work or expense.
Simply mix a combination of four parts of borax to one part of silica gel. You can make your mixture by hand; the borax should be run through a sieve before mixing [...]

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You can enjoy the freshness of a flower garden throughout the year by cutting and drying your favorite flowers. The two easiest and least expensive methods are sand-drying and air-drying.
Sand-drying can be used to dry a wide variety of flowers, such as roses, tulips, dahlias, marigolds and snapdragons. Flowers which last only one day, like [...]

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Meal worms are easy to grow at home. These come in two sizes - small and giant. I like the small’s, but I have a buddy who grows the giant’s. Get a new 5 gallon bucket (no lid). Buy these from your fast-food places for around $1.00. Then go to the bait shop and buy [...]

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Almost everyone has a box of sparkling old buttons from Grandma’s sewing chest to marvel at, or set of dominoes, checkers or mahjongg pieces rescued from a flea market. Maybe they have a partial Scrabble game and perhaps even a collection of colorful, fifty-one-to-a-deck playing cards purchased at an antique store tucked away in a [...]

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Sulpho-Plastics

This plastic is particularly adaptable for making molds and light castings requiring tensile strength but very clear outline. It may also be used for making ornaments and novelties. However, as this is flammable, do not use for ashtrays.
While the name would convey the thought of plastic sulphur which is an unstable allotropic form of [...]

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How to Cut Glass Without a Diamond Cutter:

Method 1: Dip a piece of common string in alcohol or kerosene and squeeze dry or as dry as it will get without dripping. This string should then be placed on the already marked glass and tied tight. Light the string and let it burn off. Immediately, [...]

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1. Don’t be a purist. Use live bait. Try to match it with what the fish normally feed on.
2. Use lighter fishing lines. The small size line can’t be seen as well.
3. In order to use those light lines, it’s a must to have a good working drag on your reel.
4. Smaller, sharper hooks work [...]

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Only coin collectors know about this; but you can still find 40% silver-clad half dollars in circulation today. Here is how.
Go to banks or savings and loan companies, and buy rolls of halves at $10.00 each. Buy as many as you can afford, the more you buy the more you stand to find. Take [...]

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Gutta-Pursha Molds:
Purchase a sheet of Gutta-Percha, about one-fourth of an inch thick. Cut it about size desired. Soak it in Naptha (which causes it to swell), then soak it in hot water. This makes the sheet of Gutta-Percha soft and mushy in appearance, somewhat like a wet rag. Then in this condition, press it against [...]

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This is new mold material is much superior to ordinary gelatine (mold glue) and is very easily made. It does not shrink or dry out like ordinary casting gelatins. If made according to directions it will retain all its original qualities indefinitely, and can be re-melted when necessary.
Formula:

Flake Gelatin . . . . . [...]

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